Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)