7 Jane Austen Quotes on Society

Jane Austen quotes on society

6. Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

19. Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...

22. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

35. it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

47. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

48. Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

55. You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. It makes me most uncomfortable to see An English spinster of the middle class Describe the amorous effects of 'brass,' Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety The economic basis of society.