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 was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.
It will be a bitter pill to her, that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor, and then be swallowed and forgotten
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.
If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty