We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but t... - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours,"he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
"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."
"Angry people are not always wise."
"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
"We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does."