“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”

“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in which they are involved, and on the description of their situations.”

“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”

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

“Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.”

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

“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. ”