Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
—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)
““It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;” or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)