Persuasion

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health...

I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot?

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits. She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.

When once married people begin to attack me with,--'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.

A sick child is always the mother's property...

...a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea.