Jane Austen Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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

• 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 declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Library, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.81, Courier Dover Publications

• And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Mind, Add

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Waking Lion Press

• ... 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

• it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Years, Two

  Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

• Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

  Jane Austen

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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