Quotes from Persuasion

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.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.

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.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.