“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony...Quote from a Jane Austen Letter 13 March, 1817”
“My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
“It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.”
“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”
“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”
“My very own goth Mr. Darcy. Jane Austen would be so proud.”