Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“We are to have a tiny party here tonight; I hate tiny
partiesthey force one into constant exertion.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each others comfort.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)