Famous quotes containing the words austen and/or family:
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.”
—(20th century)