Austen Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words austen wrote, austen and/or wrote:

    “I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
    —Edward Bond (b. 1934)

    “Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)