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

Pernikahan

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

There are secrets in all families, you know.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

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Jane Austen

Keluarga

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

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Jane Austen

Kehidupan

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

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Jane Austen

Keberanian

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

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Jane Austen

Kegagalan

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

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Jane Austen

Cinta

No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!

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Jane Austen

Kebahagiaan

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

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