Jane Austen

England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
Novelist

I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.

Persuasion

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Persuasion

Jane Austen

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays