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Persuasion quotes

Jane Austen

“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss Elliot to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“There is hardly any personal defect . . . which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.” Jane Austen, Persuasion

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