"Single women have a dreadful propensity to being…" — Jane Austen
"Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor"
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen has 691 quotes on this site.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own…
— James A. Baldwin
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
— Ray Bradbury
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
— A. S. Byatt
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
— Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
— Albert Camus
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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