The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen Quotes

“One day, when Mrs. Austen was reading a page of the script that I had given her, she looked me up and down and said: "Well, Miss Sharp, I knew from the minute I saw you that you had a good brain, and I declare that I was not mistaken." When I begged to know what had led her to this swift assessment of my mental powers, she replied: "Why, I always say, "The bigger the nose, the quicker the brain!" I was not quite sure how to take this strange complement, but I took comfort from the observation that she herself had a very prominent, rather aristocratic nose.”
― Lindsay Ashford, The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen