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."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."