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

“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyse. ”

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

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

“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. ”