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

Seni

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

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Pendidikan

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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Pendidikan

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Pendidikan

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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Pendidikan

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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Pendidikan

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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Pendidikan

...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.

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Kehidupan

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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Kreativitas

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

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Jane Austen

Motivasi

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

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Jane Austen

Waktu

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Jane Austen

Waktu

Time did not compose her.

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Waktu

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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Jane Austen

Humor

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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Pendidikan

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Pendidikan

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Pendidikan

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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