Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817)

· 1775 - 1817 · 362 kata bijak

Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Jane Austen

Waktu

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

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Jane Austen

Keberanian

Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?

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Jane Austen

Persahabatan

Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

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Jane Austen

Alam

What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Jane Austen

Alam

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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Jane Austen

Humor

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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Jane Austen

Sukses

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

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Jane Austen

Sukses

Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

We do not suffer by accident.

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