Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Quote by Jane Austen

Topics: Being A Woman Quotes, Poverty Quotes

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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...

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.

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...

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...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

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 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...

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...

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.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good...

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...