Jane Austen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Jane Austen quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased writer born on Dec 16, 1775). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 74 we have for her.

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

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

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“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.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

“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.”