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Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happ...more

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortles...more

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth...more

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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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 o...more

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Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the va...more

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mis...more