BiographyType: English novelist Born: December 16, 1775, Steventon, United Kingdom Died: July 18, 1817, Winchester, United Kingdom Jane Austen is a world renowned English author and, despite her having lived centuries ago, she commands a legion of fans around the world numbering in the millions today. |
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
...I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall.
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.