3 December 2020 Jane Austen My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen A lady’s imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
