Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)