For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Pride and Prejudice (novel)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice (novel)
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Pride and Prejudice (novel)
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.
Pride and Prejudice (novel)
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
Jane Austen