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 could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.