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
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!