Quotes from Jane Austen, Persuasion

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

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

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

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

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

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.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.