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
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.