Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.
I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just ano...
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
