Jane Austen Quotes, Character Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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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.

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