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
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
…dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [...] By you, I was properly humbled.
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.