Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be read more

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?