"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."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."