"Vanity, not love, has been my folly...." - Quote by Jane Austen
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
More by Jane Austen
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
More on Vanity
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
“Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .”
“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”
More on Self Awareness
“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.”
“O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!”
“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”