Pride And Prejudice

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

“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.”

there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”

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.”

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.”

he looked for a mo­ment at El­iza­beth, till catch­ing her eye, he with­drew his own and coldly said, “She is tol­er­able; but not hand­some enough to tempt me; and I am in no hu­mour at present to give con­sequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had bet­ter re­turn to your part­ner and en­joy her smiles, for you are wast­ing your time with me.”

Van­ity and pride are dif­fer­ent things, though the words are of­ten used syn­on­im­ously. 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.”

a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
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wife un­der­stand his char­ac­ter. Her mind was less dif­fi­cult to de­velop. She was a woman of mean un­der­stand­ing, lit­tle in­for­ma­tion, and un­cer­tain tem­per. When she