jane austen Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | 16 December 1775 | 18 July 1817 | English, British | George Austen | Cassandra Austen | Author, Novelist | English novelist and an iconic figure of the world literature, best known for portraying the romantic lives of the middle class English people. |
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"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." - Jane Austen
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage." - Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them." - Jane Austen
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." - Jane Austen
"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life." - Jane Austen
"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." - Jane Austen
"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." - Jane Austen
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive." - Jane Austen
"Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world." - Jane Austen
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." - Jane Austen
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." - Jane Austen