Quotes About Society

A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion.

I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.

advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.

here you are in Bath, and

the history; that was the glory of Miss

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.

I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing. She has two nieces of her own. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by him. Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.

My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

No puedo hacerme a esas conversaciones y fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.

In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of. But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.

While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.

how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

These matters are always a secret, till it is found out that every body knows them.

Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.

No me supone ningún sacrificio aceptar ocasionalmente compromisos para la noche. Todos nos debemos a la sociedad, y confieso que soy de los que consideran que los intervalos de recreo y esparcimiento son recomendables para todo el mundo - Mary

There is a strong idea in the world that a woman cannot live unless she is married, or at all events that if she refrains from marriage she does so for some bad reason.

A heroic society is almost a contradiction in terms.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University. 'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me

If we live in a society with a reasonable standard of living and some degree of social justice, the generous and peaceful aspects of our nature are likely to prevail; while in a society of racial discrimination and economic injustice, violence will thrive.