"Persuasion" Quotes

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

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

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.

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

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.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

I am not the kind of young woman to be amused by a novel.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.