The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Jane Austen Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
More quotations from Jane Austen Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email