Jane Austen Vanity Quotations

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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.