Quotes on Prejudice

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.