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
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Is not poetry the food of love?
One can never have too large a party.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
A Woman never looks better than on horseback