Quotes by Austen, Jane

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse >>

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl wh >>

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected p >>

Quotations about Fiction

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is >>

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction me >>

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across th >>

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss -- -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Austen, Jane