Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart. The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“I do not write for such dull elves
As have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)