Jane Austen Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Birthday: December 16
Death: July 18
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.
source: "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.
topic: Real, Believe, Pride, Vanity And Pride
