Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Pride... 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.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

We do not suffer by accident.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.