"Persuasion by Jane Austen" Quotes

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

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.

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

My idea of good company 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.

I hate to be obliged to such gratitude as mine should be to such a person as you.

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.