Love Quotes Quote by Jane Austen, Persuasion — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

““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."”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

““I dreamed I spoke in another's language,”

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

““My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma -- tell me at once. Say 'No,' if it is to be said." She could really say nothing. "You are silent," he cried, with great animation; "absolutely silent! at present I ask no more."”

“Love is—a shade of what I feel.”