Jane Austen Single Quotations

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.