“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
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
WomenAll Quotes by Jane Austen
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Happiness“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
Respect“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.”
Good“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Home“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Men“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
Education“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Good“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Great“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“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Friendship“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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Business“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Best“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Women“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
Best“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
Women“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
Politics