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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

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, Thinking, Vanity

Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

Pride, Forever, Prejudice

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Heart, Pride, Prejudice

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.179, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

Pride, Taught, Prejudice

"Fictional character: Mr Darcy". "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Forgiveness, Pride, Mrs Bennet

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

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.

Real, Believe, Pride

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

Romantic, Love You, Pride

Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Real, Pride, Vanity

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

Love, Pride, Mrs Bennet

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austin (Chapter 34), January 28, 1813.

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, Loss, Laughing

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.231, BookBaby

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Moving, Believe, Pride

Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Pride, Silence, Feelings

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Pride, May, Action

Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.319, Penguin

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Pride, Prejudice, Stranger

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.162, Jane Austen

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

Pride, Trying, Way

Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

Believe, Mean, Pride

Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing

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

Eye, Pride, Pretty Woman

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.22

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Pride, Men, Giving

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Pride, Men, Two

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

Beautiful, Believe, Pride

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

Character, Pride, Offending

Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.127

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