"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"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."
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."