Quotes About Jane Austen

Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.

In its descriptions of a family trying to find suitable mates for three sisters, The Makioka Sisters by Junichir ? Tanizaki brings to mind the novels of Jane Austen and Anton Chekhov.

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.

This was the authentic voice of the educated British middle class, unshakable in its tone, meeting the war with light-hearted fortitude and an insistently civilized response. It is seen in the opening of a man's letter to a friend: "I think I can claim to be the only person in Southern England to have been blown off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen.