Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly bl... - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

"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."

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."