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
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
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. – Jane Austen
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. – Jane Austen