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
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.
Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.
I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.
Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.