Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;Mit is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
    —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)