Jane Austen

Novelist

Jane Austen was an English novelist known for her keen social commentary and exploration of love, particularly in her influential works like 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Born
December 16, 1775
Died
July 18, 1817
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#27

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"I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

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"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."

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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

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"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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"my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

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"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?"

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"I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life."

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"I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress."

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"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."

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"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."

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"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."

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"Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him."

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"Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed."

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"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."

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"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."

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