Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austenwas an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her most highly praised novel during her lifetime was Pride and Prejudice, her second published novel. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 December 1775
CitySteventon, England
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Let us have the luxury of silence.
One word from you shall silence me forever.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison