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Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Book by Jane Austen · 11 quotes · Pain, Doe, Has Beens

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Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling) Quotes

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.”

“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-”

“I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.”

“No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.”