Famous quotes containing the words james and/or austen:
“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)