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
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.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.