Austen Persuasion Quotes

#1. No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

#3. I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

Diana Peterfreund

#4. It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Jane Austen

#5. Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

Jane Austen

#6. If I truly loved a man, his fortune or lack of one would not make any difference to me. In any case, we cannot always choose with whom we fall in love. When it happens, it is not something we can just dismiss on a whim or tell to go away. There is no rhyme nor reason in matters of the heart.

Jane Odiwe