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
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.