Famous quotes containing the words austen and/or novels:
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)