Jane Austen Quotes
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
Austen, Jane. Emma. John Murray, 1816.
In the midst of the Vietnam War, U Thant, the Secretary General of the United Nations had tried to open back-channel communications to the North Vietnamese. Rusk came down hard on Thant, reminding him that he was only the Secretary General—the instrument of the states of the United Nations and was not a state himself and did not have the prerogatives of a state.
He was the first of the modern Western poets and is often referred to as the Father of the Humanities
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.
