InspiringQuotes

Jane Austen Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

Birthday: December 16

Death: July 18

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

topic: Imagination, Inspire, Lovely, Tresses

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