More quotes by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
"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."
"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
"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."