Austen Family

Famous quotes containing the words austen and/or family:

    Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    Chant lessons and your family will prosper; drunken ditties will lead you to ruin.
    Chinese proverb.