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
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.