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.
Jane AustenWhat one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
Jane AustenIt was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane AustenThe advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance
Jane Austen