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Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberat...more

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I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinio...more

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But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered un...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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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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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

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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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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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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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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 concern which I migh...more

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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 human nature is particular...more