| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4986 |
| QUOTATION: | Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. The narrator, in Sense and Sensibility, ch. 21 (1811). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Austen Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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