Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
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 or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen