I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
Jane AustenGood-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane AustenPride... 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 particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.
Jane Austen