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
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.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet