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
It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
What are men to rocks and mountains?
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.