Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great…

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that…

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane…

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

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

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…