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 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.
There seemed a gulf impassable between them.
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
Time did not compose her.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.