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
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
Evil to some is always good to others
I have no talent for certainty.
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.
one day in the country is exactly like another.
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.