society Quotes

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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

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

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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