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
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
I will only add, God bless you.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.