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 always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.
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.
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?
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it
If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.