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
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Know your own happiness.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Well! Evil to some is always good to others.