Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

With a book he was regardless of time;

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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.”

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”