Persuasion Quotes
"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character: vanity of person and of situation."
"Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society."
"She had been repeatedly very earnest in trying to get Anne included in the visit to London, sensibly open to all the injustice and all the discredit of the selfish arrangements which shut her out."
"The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it."
"It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin’s age."
"The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give."
"A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line."
"One day last spring, in town, I was in company with two men, striking instances of what I am talking of."
"I have observed it all my life. A sailor grows old sooner than any other man."
"Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow."
"A strong mind, with sweetness of manner, made the first and the last of the description."
"I hate to hear of women on board, or to see them on board; and no ship, under my command, shall ever convey a family of ladies anywhere, if I can help it."
"It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all one's efforts and all one's sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to have."
"We shall have him very thankful to anybody that will bring him his wife."
"I perfectly understand Mr. Robinson's directions, and have no fears."
"This is the woman I want, something a little inferior I shall of course put up with, but it must not be much."
"I would assist any brother officer's wife that I could, and I would bring anything of Harville's from the world's end if he wanted it."
"Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions."
"But fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain, which taste cannot tolerate, which ridicule will seize."
"We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness."
"Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long."
"It is a period, indeed! Eight years and a half is a period!"
"I hope your father and mother are quite happy with regard to both."
"Such excellent parents as Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove should be happy in their children's marriages."
"I assure you Mr. Elliot had not the share which you have been supposing, in whatever pleasure the concert of last night might afford."
"He stood, as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness."
"I do not wonder Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he cannot put the card out of his hand."
"I have always wanted some other motive for his conduct than appeared."
"It was impossible but that Mrs. Clay must hate the sight of Mr. Elliot."
"Captain Wentworth would move about well in her drawing room."
"The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold composure."
"It holds nine. I have engaged Captain Wentworth."
"We were asked on purpose to be introduced."
"We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
"It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved."
"We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us."
"I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."