Jane Austen Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Pride, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

• Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Generosity

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.302, BookCaps Study Guides

• Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

  Jane Austen

  Nursing, Sick, Weakness

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.351

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