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
One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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.
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.
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.
It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.
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.