Austen

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)

    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)

    What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)