More quotes by Jane Austen, Persuasion

"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."