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
Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.