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Pride Quotes by Jane Austen
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
- I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little…
- I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
- I might as well enquire,†replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you…
- You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections…
- Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
- There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly,…
- Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
- You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the…
- We neither of us perform to strangers.
- It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing…
- It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
- It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
- Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would…
- My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the…
- There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the…
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- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
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- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees… — Rudolf Arnheim