"Good company requires only birth, education, and..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.”

“A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.”

“Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.”

“The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.”

“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”