“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
