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
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.