Jane Austen

1813 · England · While reading his daughter a letter full of absurd gossip

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Pride and Prejudice, chapter 57, spoken by Mr. Bennet

In the same thread

September 5, 1796 · England

Mr. Richard Harvey is going to be married; but as it is a great secret, and only known to half the neighborhood, you must not mention it.

Letter to her sister Cassandra