Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Poverty Quotes

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature...

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there...

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there...

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen...

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen...

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs...