More quotes by Jane Austen

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."