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
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
I can always live by my pen.
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
We are all fools in love
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.