Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a
    dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a
    fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her
    husband.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)