Quotes of: Austen Keyword

As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she bears of sympathy between them--an impression of which almost every reader would be sensible, even if it had not the ...

Jane Austen And Her Art

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Amy Waldman

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I Capture the Castle

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen's Letters

I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

The Jane Austen Book Club

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.

Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

JJ Feild

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The Jane Austen Book Club

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Cathleen Schine

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:) "We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film