文档介绍：Quotes by Jane Austen
---..there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.
Source: Persuation
---The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
---There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we fort somewhere.
Source: Mansfield Park
---One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Source: Emma
---It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
---Those who do plain are never pitied.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
---A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
---We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Source::Mansfield Park
---There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
Source::Mansfield Park
---One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Source: Persuation
Jane Austen
I. Brief Introduction to the Writer
1. Life Story
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, in southern England of a country clergyman’s family in 1775. She was educated at home and never married. Her father was a rector and a scholar with a good library. Through a wide reading of books available in her father’s library, Jane acquired a thorough knowledge of 18th century English literature.
All through her life she lived a quiet, retired and uneventful life of forty years