Quote by Jane Austen
"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious work on the serious subjects of the day without despairing of ever being able to do it as they ought to be done."
More from Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"