Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
expression; it is such thorough novel slang—and so old, that I
dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)