Jane Austen Quotes About Persuasion
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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 in calm waters all our lives.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
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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. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.
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