Famous quotes containing the word austen:
“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
—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)
“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)