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
One word from you shall silence me forever.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Let us have the luxury of silence.
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.