More quotes by Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"