Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Poverty Quotes

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

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.

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 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...

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May...

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...