Jane Austen

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

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

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.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness …