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.
my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Know your own happiness.
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
The less said the better.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
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.
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
Time will explain.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
I am excessively diverted.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
Beware how you give your heart.
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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