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
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
I must have my share in the conversation…
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.