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
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
I want nothing but death.
In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.
It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.
It will be a bitter pill to her, that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor, and then be swallowed and forgotten
Drinking too much of Mr Weston's good wine.
Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart