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 our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Angry people are not always wise.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.