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

Kehidupan

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

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Jane Austen

Waktu

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Jane Austen

Humor

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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Jane Austen

Humor

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.

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Jane Austen

Humor

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

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Jane Austen

Humor

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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Jane Austen

Kebahagiaan

Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering 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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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!

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Jane Austen

Kreativitas

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

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Jane Austen

Cinta

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.

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