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
“Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.” Jane Austen
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Jane Austen
“There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” Jane Austen
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Jane Austen
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” Jane Austen
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” – Jane Austen Jane Austen
