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 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.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
When money is once parted with, it can never return.
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.
Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.