Austen

Famous quotes containing the word austen:

    Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
    —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)