Remarkable mind
Jane Austen
English novelist · 1775–1817
Jane Austen wrote sharply observed novels about family, money, status, judgment and marriage. Her controlled narrative voice and use of irony gave psychological and social depth to apparently domestic stories, and her six completed novels remain central to English literature.
Selected works and contributions
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Emma
- Persuasion
Ideas to explore
- Character
- Love
- Judgment
- Society
Jane Austen quotes in the generator
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
— Jane Austen
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
— 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
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
— Jane Austen
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