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
In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.
The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope
Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.
It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.
My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .
One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.
. . . 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.
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.