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 declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.