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
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
I have heard that something very shocking indeed will soon come out in London.
I don't know what I'd do without you guys.
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other
Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart
. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.
She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . .