More quotes by Jane Austen

"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."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."