Monday, March 17, 2008

Random Quote of the Day

From the Illustrated London News, July 10th 1926:

People have even had the brazen ignorance and insolence to talk of the ladies of Jane Austen as if they were sentimental and over-refined. The most sentimental of her heroines (and few of them were sentimental) would have thought all this modernstuff a nightmare of refinement. The author of "Sense and Sensibility" would have locked up in a lunatic asylum half of the bold, free, educated heroines in modern books, for the very sound reason that they were raving mad with sensibility and a danger to any person of sense.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

P.S. I haven't been able to find any very St. Patrick's Dayish Chesterton quotes. But if any of you know any, please do comment with them.

2 comments:

Algernon said...

Ha, ha! Happy St. Patric's Day (a little late) Go J.A. !!!!!

(I'm feeling rather explosive)

Ria said...

Same to you!!!! Ditto on JA

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