Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.


The Book of Household Management (1861)

Isabella Beeton Quotes

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... ...

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... ...

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... ...

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed... ...