Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
—Edward Bond (b. 1934)
“Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”
—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)