Quotes About Anne In Persuasion

#1. 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

#2. I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

Patti Smith

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

Jane Austen

#5. He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

Jennifer James

#7. I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

#8. 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

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

Jane Austen

#10. Dear today,
i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

Nina LaCour

#11. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.

Eric Schmidt

#12. Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

Robert Anton Wilson

#13. Toby's nose was very red, and his eye-lids were very red, and he winked very much, and his shoulders were very near his ears and his legs were very stiff, and altogether he was evidently a long way upon the frosty of cool.

Charles Dickens

#14. Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money.

Robin Sacredfire

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

#17. The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Paul Hawken