Her works were hailed as best sellers in a time when women hardly had a voice. Let the wise words of the influential writer inspire you to be your best.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
- It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
- Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
