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
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.