1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

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.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run, will certainly have the laugh on her side.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

We do not look in our great cities for our best moralit

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.