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1775–1817 England
Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.
Also known as: Austen, Jane
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The sooner every party breaks up the better.
Emma (1815)
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Emma (1816)
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived — my breakfast supplied only two ideas — that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!
No one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
Northanger Abbey (1817)
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
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