Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)