Persuasion Quotes

“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

topic:love heart

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

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:love hope loss

“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

topic:love man woman

“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:happiness

“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

topic:truth ignorance opinion

“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

topic:women men writing

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:self way

“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

topic:wisdom reason

“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:pain memory pleasure

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

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:pain hope

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