"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."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
“Do anything rather than marry without affection.”
“They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
“She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.”
"One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."