Quotes About Society

Jane Austen mastered her unscrupulous charmers before she did her heroes.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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

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.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

About 10 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard ) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Design is people.