Anne Elliot Quotes

• We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Feelings, Quiet

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

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• If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Safety, Risk

  Jane Austen (1993). “Persuasion”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Unjust, May, Persuasion

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1580, Ageless Reads

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• Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

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• Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Men, His Love, Forget

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.426

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• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

  Jane Austen

  Enjoy, Enjoyed, Misfortunes

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

  Jane Austen

  Presence Of Mind, Tongue, Sometimes

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.188, Jane Austen

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

  Jane Austen

  Agitation, Letters, Moments

  Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

  Jane Austen

  Self, Wild Imagination, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1554, Ageless Reads

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• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Suffering, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…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.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Examination, Evening

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

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• she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Feelings, Taste

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

  Walter Scott

  Death, Art, Rivers

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.458

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• I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Sacrifice, Intelligent

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• 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

  Half, Body, Might

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