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
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.