Jane Austen, Persuasion

Quotes

• “she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that th...”
• “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the...”
• “Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in a...”
• “My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation...”
• “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be...”
• “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatura...”
• “...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.”
• “There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
• “Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
• “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
• “...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
• “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”