Jane Austen – Quote Investigator®

There Is No Safety In Numbers, Or In Anything Else

James Thurber? Jane Austen? Charles Caleb Colton? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Many are familiar with the following adage which encourages aggregation: There is safety in numbers. Yet, I recall reading a short acerbic tale that presented an inverted moral of this type: There is no safety in numbers, or anything else. Would you please help …

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If a Book Is Well Written, I Always Find It Too Short

Jane Austen? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The famous novelist Jane Austen wrote that when she was reading an enjoyable book she always found that it was too short. Would you please help me to locate this quotation? Quote Investigator: Jane Austen was born in 1775, and she began to work on a novel called “Catharine …

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