Jane Austen. Phrases and fragments of his work on his 244 birthday

Jane Austen turns 244 today and it's always good to congratulate her. It is possible that, in this days of good and romantic spirits at their peak, let's take a book of his or let's see some of his film adaptations. It's hard to get tired of your timeless love stories. Today I remember her with some phrases and fragments of his most outstanding works.

Jane Austen

She was born in Steventon and is considered one of the most influential authors within Anglo-Saxon literature, but also universal in its most romantic genre.

She started writing when she was a child, but his first work published was Sense and Sensibility, with which he already got a name in the literary world. Two years later it followed Pride and Prejudice, the one that gave him great success and is possibly his best known novel.

All the novels by Austen, also with a traditional tone, they were very popular already in its time. They also influenced later generations of not only English writers. His latest titles, Persuasiveness y Northanger Abbey, were published posthumously.

Phrase selection

1. Happiness in marriage depends entirely on luck.
2. I have been a selfish being all my life, not in theory, but in practice.
3. What value can life have if we are not together?
4. My characters will have, after some tribulations, everything they want.
5. Experience is good in a man.
6. Good does not always lead to a good ending. It is a truth recognized by all.
7. Nobody complains about having what they don't deserve.
8. If there is a faculty of our nature that can be considered wonderful, it is memory.
9. It is always incomprehensible for a man to see how a woman rejects a marriage offer.
10. I don't want people to be nice, so it saves me the trouble of getting fond of them.

Fragments

Sense and Sensibility

Marianne began to realize that her sixteen-year-old hopelessness about finding a man to fulfill her ideas of masculine perfection had been light and unfounded. Willoughby now offered her whatever her imagination dreamed of in other more optimistic moments, as capable to engender in her a true affection; and his conduct announced both seriousness in his desires and authenticity in his gifts.

Emma

Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, intelligent and rich, with a wealthy family and a good character, seemed to gather in her person the best gifts of the existence; and she had lived close to twenty-one years with almost nothing to afflict or anger her. She was the youngest of two daughters of a very loving and indulgent father and, as a result of her sister's wedding, she had been a housewife from a very young age. Her mother had been dead for too long for her to retain more than a hazy memory of her caresses, and a governess, a woman with a big heart, had taken her place almost like a mother.

Pride and prejudice

When Mr. Darcy delivered this letter to her, Elizabeth did not expect Elizabeth to renew her offers, but neither did she expect, far from it, such content. It is easy to imagine with what anxiety he read what he said and what more contradictory emotions he raised in his chest. His feelings could not be clearly defined while reading. She saw first with amazement that Darcy was still apologizing for his conduct, when she was firmly convinced that he was incapable of finding any explanation that a just sense of decorum would not force him to hide.

Northanger Abbey

The deepening of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was as rapid as its beginnings had been effusive, and all degrees of growing affection were so swiftly overcome that soon there was no further evidence to give of him to his friends or to each other. They called each other by their first name, they always walked arm in arm, joined the same dance group and did not allow themselves to be separated; if a rainy morning deprived them of other diversions, they maintained their resolve to see each other, braving the humidity and mud, and shut themselves up together to read novels.