Pride & Prejudice

Mr Darcy

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." -When asked by Elizabeth on when he first knew he loved her.

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." -Mr Darcy to Elizabeth

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

Elizabeth Bennet

"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me." -Elizabeth to Lady Catherine, when the latter spoke to her regarding Mr Darcy's intentions towards Elizabeth and what Elizabeth's answer would be.

"How despicably have I acted!' she cried. - 'I, who have prided myself on my discernment! - I, who have valued myself on my abilities!" - After reading Mr Darcy's letter

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." - Talking about Mr Darcy

Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it. -When she first saw Pemberley.

Jane Bennet

"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does."

Mary Bennet

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.