Jane Austen Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Birthday: December 16
Death: July 18
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
source: 1816 Emma, ch.26.
topic: Silly, People, Done, Being Silly, Silly Things
