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Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

1775–1817

77 quotes, most often on Love, Comedy and Marriage.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice (1813)In context
- Marriage
- Money
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter IIIn context
- Comedy
- Money
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 any body else.
Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIn context
- Money
- Women
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
- Money
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Happiness
- Money
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Money

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