Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their com plexion.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“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 (1775–1817)
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)