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
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
An annuity is a very serious business.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.