Anne Elliot Quotes

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! ~ Walter Scott

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. ~ Jane Austen

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk ~ Jane Austen

Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove. ~ Jane Austen

She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities. ~ Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love. (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion) ~ Jane Austen

And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and standing there before her startled eyes, and turn into the form of a man.
Not a man, a god. So perfectly formed, so handsome, with such wisdom and desire in his eyes and such quiet joy on his lips. He was breathtakingly beautiful and Anne felt herself grow weak with some unnamable longing. His eyes met hers and caught her soul tight, and she could not look away as he read every thought in her mind.
"Come," he said to her in a voice like liquid silver, "I know your mind, and it is one with mine."
Anne could not speak, but she did not need to. Her eyebrows raised in question.
He laughed, "Why to love, of course. ~ Elliot Mabeuse

If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness would be restored. There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot! ~ Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. ~ Jane Austen

There was nothing "bright and sparkling" about this one. It was subdued, almost melancholy. Heroine Anne Elliot, perhaps my favorite of the Austen women I'd encountered, waited as circumstances and her world closed in around her. She helped where she could, got tossed about with little care - and she waited. ~ Katherine Reay

A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here. ~ Jane Austen

When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she turned to it and opened her bodice, letting it caress and kiss her breasts, for she never knew when it might be him, and still she wanted nothing more than to please him utterly. ~ Elliot Mabeuse

He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It ~ Jane Austen

I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation
of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes. ~ Jane Austen

Clothes are a better place for girls to keep their histories than stories. Stories betray girls by saying what we really were according to the rules of some game we had never agreed to play. Stories are about the painful aporia of having to both appear and exist, the things done to us, what we are trying to cover up by getting dressed. But if we kept our histories in clothes, these were the annals only of our own actualization and no one would put in quotation marks the bad things the world had said our way as we walked by on the streets. ~ Anne Boyer

Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society. ~ Anne Perry

Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensit going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival. ~ Anne Graham Lotz

When I close my eyes, I see my soul as a screen crisscrossed with flowing, intertwined lines; architectural straight lines of a volume uncertain of its limits, exposed on all sides; a fragile construction, by turns knocked down, invaded, uprooted, robbed of its foundations, mined by all those embraces in which it happily prostitutes itself. ~ Anne Garréta

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. ~ Anne Lamott

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time. ~ Anne Enright

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. ~ Anne Lamott

I am mad the way young girls are mad,
with an offering, an offering. ~ Anne Sexton

If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level. ~ Romano Prodi

Remember, Rose, whatever you've suffered, no matter how bad it's been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person. ~ Anne Rice

The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded. ~ Elliot Ackerman

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can. ~ Anne Michaels

Carol Anne had a bad case of motor-mouth. Amanda wanted to install a muffler. ~ Tamara Thorne

You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. ~ Anne Lamott

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose. ~ Anne F. Beiler

This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose. ~ Anne Bronte

I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life. ~ Anne Tyler

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. ~ Anne Rice

You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again. ~ Anne Rice

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do. ~ Anne Bishop

Now if I don't take exercise I feel a bit frazzled. ~ Ben Elliot

Such a fragile way to sustain a whole life: on a web one weaves for oneself. ~ Julie Anne Long

MEEEEE!" it bellowed.
She jumped back again, dropping the basket lid. What the devil?
She opened it again, and looked down at the wee thing.
"MEEEEEE!"
"Good heavens, you are loud," she told it. "I thought cats were supposed to say 'meow.' There are two syllables in meow."
"MEEEEEE!" It corrected vehemently and with great singularity. ~ Julie Anne Long

Die happy-I will, F'nor cried, cutting more fruit. ~ Anne McCaffrey

He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside ~ Anne Marsh

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation. ~ Anne Truitt

Stop the darkness and its amputations
and find the real McCoy
in the private holiness
of my hands. ~ Anne Sexton

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness. ~ Anne Bronte

I don't know much about psychoanalysis, but I don't believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do. ~ Anne Blankman

she thinks we‟re both of the same species, but vultures don‟t make friends with
hummingbird ~ Anne Eliot

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well. ~ Anne Parillaud

Be careful who you love. They'll be part of you always. Even after the love is long dead, the fuckers'll be part of you. ~ Anne Rivers Siddons

She thought that heartbreak might just give his character the shadows and corners and angles it needed to make it truly interesting. To deepen and shape it. She was sorry she would be the one to help make him truly interesting. But she'd never apologize for falling in love with a man who already was. ~ Julie Anne Long

The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I couldn't get it off. ~ Anne Clendening

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord. ~ Jim Elliot

Claire was de rigeuer even in disgrace. ~ Tracy Anne Warren

There was no attempt to speak of blastocytes; only the hard, hard reality of acceptance and faith. ~ Anne Cleeland

Yes, I see.'
'Beware.'
'Of thinking I understand?'
'Precisely [...] ~ Anne Rice