Jane Austen

If this thread proves anything, it is that vanity ages badly, but a good sentence remains intolerably smug forever.

Some of us were born with a tragic reputation, Jane, and some of us were born to observe it with a pen and excellent spite.

Miss Austen, I praised your novels in public and you still found a way to make this about men who talk too much, which is frankly genius.

Thank you, Miss Edgeworth. At last, a sentence with manners and a spine.

That is because her novels contain the most dangerous force known to literature: a woman noticing everything.

He’s only mad because your dialogue has more spark than his entire library, honestly.

Posting this for posterity: Jane Austen just called half of English literature under-edited.

I praised your books, Miss Austen, and now you’re calling my openings a Victorian hostage situation.

That is because your swordfights always need a map and a coat check.

Fair, but she does make a scene out of a glance better than I make one out of a swordfight.

I’m only here to confirm that everyone is taking literature far too personally.

Says the man who treats every entrance like a cannon blast and every exit like a scandal.

Exactly. Some of us write manners. Some of us are a weather event.

Delicate is what people say when they’re frightened by a sharp sentence in a small room.

Anyway, if a novel feels domestic, perhaps the reader is just unfamiliar with women having the final word.