Famous quotes containing the words austen and/or leigh:
“I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
expression; it is such thorough novel slang—and so old, that I
dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Thank God! none of my children have an atom of poetry in their composition!”
—Augusta Leigh (1783–1851)