Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)