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.