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

Kebahagiaan

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

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Jane Austen

Seni

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

There is no other enjoyment like reading

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

We are all fools in love

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Jane Austen

Alam

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Jane Austen

Alam

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

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Jane Austen

Pendidikan

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Jane Austen

Kebahagiaan

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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Jane Austen

Humor

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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Jane Austen

Kebahagiaan

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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Jane Austen

Pernikahan

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

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