70 Best Book Quotes

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Do anything rather than marry without affection.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

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.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony.

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Nothing is more deceitful... than the appearance of humility.

Pride is a very common failing... I am convinced that it is very common indeed.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.