Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or austen:
“I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, “Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)