Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)