Jane Austen Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, House

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.52, Jane Austen

• How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

  Jane Austen

  Book, Tire

  Jane Austen (2004). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.84, OUP Oxford

• Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, Should

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.24

• A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

  Jane Austen

  Education, Book, Reading

  "Mansfield Park". Volume I,

• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

• I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Should

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

• I have read your book, and I disapprove.

  Jane Austen

  Book

• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Long, Done

• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.492, BookCaps Study Guides

• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Home, Fate

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

• Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

• I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

• ...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Prove

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

• No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Ballroom

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

• Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mind, Female

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

• With a book he was regardless of time.

  Jane Austen

  Book

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

• ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, Talking

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Occupation

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 1

• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

• Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reflection, Stories

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1078, Wordsworth Editions

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