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
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
I would much rather have been merry than wise.
We neither of us perform to strangers.
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.