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
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.