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

Nasihat

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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Jane Austen

Kreativitas

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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Jane Austen

Motivasi

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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Jane Austen

Motivasi

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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Jane Austen

Humor

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Jane Austen

Humor

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Jane Austen

Humor

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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Jane Austen

Humor

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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Jane Austen

Humor

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 they the result of previous study?

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Jane Austen

Humor

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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Jane Austen

Humor

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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Jane Austen

Humor

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

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Jane Austen

Nasihat

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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Jane Austen

Kejujuran

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

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Jane Austen

Kejujuran

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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Jane Austen

Kejujuran

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

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Jane Austen

Kejujuran

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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