Pretty Women Quote by Jane Austen

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

— 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

“she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of…

— Jennifer Ashley

“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.”

— Virginia Woolf

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

— Jane Austen

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

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

— Patrice Hannon

“Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”

— Richard Curtis