Jane Austen

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer…

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance…

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

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

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has…

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble…

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure…

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

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

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort…

A lady’s imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to…

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love…

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument…