Anne Elliot Persuasion Quotes

#1. The Soul is attached to the world, and her Love contains the passion, beauty, and awe that make life worth living.

Elisa Romeo

#2. Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short

#3. 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

Jane Austen

#4. If you are stuck in the idea that you need to be perfect, you are definitely lacking in self-love.

Jonathan Bello

#5. There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Jane Austen

#6. I hate it here. I hate the way everyone looks at you. I hate the way everyone looks.

Catherine O'Flynn

#7. Dear Moon, Slowly enlighten my heart with your lovely, silvery, dancing, miraculous light.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I am not a fool.

Maria V. Snyder

#9. Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Max Jacob

#10. It's true what they say - sometimes the neuros are crazier than the patients.

Stephen King

#11. Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Jane Austen

#12. Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from ... Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Jane Austen

#13. As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.

Julia Quinn

#14. I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

Candice Bergen

#15. What time do you need to get ready for college boy?" I looked at my watch. "I probably should leave soon. Do you think it's strange that he's taking me?"
Levi shook his head. "I would find it odd if anybody didn't want to take you anywhere you wanted to go.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#16. She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities.

Jane Austen

#17. I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

Jeremy Camp

#18. The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

Dorothy Richardson