Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion was published posthumously in 1817.
It is regarded as her most maturely written work, with a refinement of literary thought befitting a lady nearing 40 years of age.
Let’s go through the list of the great quotes from Persuasion novel by Jane Austen.
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Persuasion Quotes by Jane Austen
“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Time will explain.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
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Best Persuasion Quotes by Jane Austen
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“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.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
Quotes from Persuasion
“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“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!” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“…when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“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.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I walk: I prefer walking.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Let those who want to be happy … be firm.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
Top Persuasion Quotes by Jane Austen
“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“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 (quote from Persuasion).
“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.” ~ Jane Austen, Persuasion.
“Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I’m afraid it is not very particular.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
Famous Persuasion Quotes by Jane Austen
“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I will not allow books to prove anything.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.” ~ Jane Austen (quote from Persuasion).
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