“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.” (Emma).A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.” (Emma) “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.“Angry people are not always wise.” (Pride and Prejudice).“One man’s ways may be as good as another, but we all like our own best.” (Persuasion).“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.” (Emma).“One cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.” (Pride and Prejudice).“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.” (Pride and Prejudice).“Good opinion once lost, is lost forever.” (Pride and Prejudice).“There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.” (Letter to Cassandra, April 21, 1805).“It is particularly encumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly first.” (Pride and Prejudice).“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.” (Emma).“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” (Mansfield Park).So in honor of her “merciless” wit and her “whip-like phrase,” as Virginia Woolf described it, here are some of her best silver-tongued torches that you can steal when you need to slightly roast your enemies or be brutally honest with your friends and not sound like a toad: The woman could keep it real like no one else.
Her wit and charm would have made her a viral sensation overnight. Had she been alive during this modern era of social media, she would have been a Twitter goddess. If you’ve ever actually read a Jane Austen novel, then you know that she was a woman ahead of her time. However, letting Jane speak for herself, “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid” (Northanger Abbey). Many people have made this same VERY mistaken assumption about Jane Austen.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever a girl writes a love story, everyone will assume she’s basic and that her book is probably boring.
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