“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
Friendship“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Happiness“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Best“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
Beauty“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“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.”
Nature“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
Education“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.”
Truth“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Marriage“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
Women“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Home“A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Imagination“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
Alone“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
Best“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Nature“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Politics“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Men