Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
—Edward Bond (b. 1934)
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)