“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
“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
RespectAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“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“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Politics“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Best“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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Business“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
Women“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
Best“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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
Nature“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“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Best“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Men“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Home“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good“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