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Jane Austen

16 December 1775-18 July 1817

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Autumn is that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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Pride is very different from vanity. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

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Vanity is very different from pride. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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William Shakespeare is a thinker one gets acquainted with without knowing how. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.