Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

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

    The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)