Jane Austen Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

  Jane Austen

  Needs, Half, Dozen

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Mouths

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Rude, Lovely

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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