Jane Austen on Family
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Jane Austen, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
This page displays 4 quotations attributed to Jane Austen and filed under "family" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #24296: "Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man."
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #126049: "And indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property, her own feelings general…"
4 Quotes by Jane Austen on Family
"Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man."
"And indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property, her own feelings generally make it so."
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"I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea."