Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)