Quote Origin: There Is No Safety In Numbers, Or In Anything Else

James Thurber? Jane Austen? Charles Caleb Colton? Anonymous? Question for 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 …

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

Jane Austen? Apocryphal? Question for 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? Reply from Quote Investigator: Jane Austen was born in 1775, and she began to work on a …