Marriage Quote by Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“...it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous,…

— Jane Austen

“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant…

— Jane Austen

“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Jane Austen)”

— Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged....well, in this crowd, I believe we can depend on our fellow bookies to fill in the rest. Thank…

— Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

— Jane Austen

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard…

— Julie Walters

“Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.”

— Patrice Hannon

“Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in…

— Catherine Reef

“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,…

— ian watt