Quotes About Persuasion

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before

How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in others!

Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.

Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.

He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It

She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.

Si ce que je vous ai dit jusqu'ici peut vous apparaître sous la forme d'un encouragement, je ne sais vraiment pas comment exprimer mon refus d'une façon telle qu'il vous donne la conviction qu'il en est bien un.

Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she

Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.

Cuando la mente no quiere convencerse, siempre encontrará algo en qué sustentar sus dudas.

talking to people. Within a few minutes, she starts to believe that they are in fact friends. She is seduced every time. In fact a few months ago

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman. -Ranger to Stephanie

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

I've been involved in the Conservative party for two decades. I've fought for the party. I have an unusual background - I'm not your typical Tory recruit. I've spent a long time evangelising about why people should look at the Conservative party seriously.

There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They feel powerful, and from a deferential position, you've actually granted that power, and you're the one that now actually has the upper hand in the conversation.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.