#austen

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But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.' It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.


Jennifer Paynter


#expectation #happiness #jane-austen #love #peter-bushell

I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.


Jennifer Paynter


#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #loyalty #mary-bennet

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?


Jane Austen


#northanger-abbey #love

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


Mary Lascelles


#art

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 explicit confirmation of Jane Austen's letters. Yet, as she is presented to us in Pride and Prejudice, she is but a partial and sometimes perverse observer.


Mary Lascelles


#jane-austen #pride-and-prejudice #art

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!


Dodie Smith


#novel

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.


Julie Walters


#actually #austen #days #extraordinary #jane

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.


Mark Haddon


#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen #love