More quotes by Jane Austen, Persuasion

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"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."
"...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall."