A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen
Author : 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. – Jane Austen
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have […]
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. – Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better […]
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. – Jane Austen
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. – Jane Austen
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. – Jane Austen