Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Poverty Quotes

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the...

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as...

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as...

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...