Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Poverty Quotes

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...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

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...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

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...

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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

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

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

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

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

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...

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...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give...

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give...

Old age is the verdict of life.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an...

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an...

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out...

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out...