Jane Austen Persuasion Quotes

#1. A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.

Jane Austen

#2. May you find grace to do what needs to be done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Jane Austen

#4. As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Stephen Pagliuca

#5. 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

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

Jane Austen

#7. Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Billy Graham

#8. nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. PERSUASION

Jane Austen

#9. My point is that she's not smart. She's not nice. And most importantly, she's not you. If Quin can't see that, he doesn't deserve you.

Ellery A. Kane

#10. To yield readily
easily
to the persuasion of a friend is no merit ... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Jane Austen

#11. The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Noam Chomsky

#12. My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.

Pat Forde

#13. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.

Anton Chekhov

#14. 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

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

Jane Austen

#16. 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

#17. If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

#20. They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

C.J. Milbrandt

#21. Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Hugh Hefner

#22. 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

#23. Follow your dreams but stop if you come to a cliff edge.

Peter James West

#24. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

#26. Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.

Jane Austen

#27. 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

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

Jane Austen