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
never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
I do not cough for my own amusement.
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.