Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    “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)

    “She found his manners very pleasing indeed.—The little flaw of
    having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems to
    be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)