Key Quotes from 'Persuasion'

Quotes from Persuasion that can be used to explore a variety of themes. Most of the quotes are interchangeable and can be used for more than one theme.

Note: The themes each quote can be used for depends on you; you might think a quote can be used to explore the theme of masculinity, whilst somebody else could disagree and use the same quote to explore Love and Romance etc.

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Omniscient Narrator on Sir Walter (Chapter 1)
Vanity was the beginning and end of Sir Walter's character...
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Omniscient Narrator on Sir Walter (Chapter 1)
He [Sir Walter] considered the blessing of beauty as inferior to only to the blessing of a baronetcy
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Lady Russell (Free indirect speech) on herself and Sir Walter (Chapter 1)
That Lady Russell...sould have thought no more of a steady marriage needs no apology to the public...but Sir Walter's continuing in singleness requires explanation
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Charles Musgrove (Free indirect speech) on Mary being responsible for her sick son (Chapter 6)
But what was there for a father to do? This was quite the female case
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Anne [To Mary] (Chapter 7)
And indeed Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property....
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Omniscient Narrator on Lady Elliot (Chapter 1)
While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy
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Mrs Croft (Chapter 8)
The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time I ever fancied myself unwell... Was the winter that... Admiral [Croft] was in the North seas.
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Captain Wentworth [Free indirect speech] (Chapter 11)
Captain Wentworth believed it impossible for man to be more attatched to woman than poor Benwick had been to Fanny Harville.
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Captain Wentworth [To Anne] [Free Direct Speech] (Chapter 23)
I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you broke it eight years and a half ago...
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Captain Wentworth [Free indirect speech] (Chapter 7)
[Wentworth] had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill...
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Elizabeth and Sir Walter [Free indirect speech] (Chapter 1)
...They were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity
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Mr Shepherd [Free indirect speech] (Chapter 2)
[Bath] was a much safer place for a gentleman in his [Sir Walter's] predicament
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He [Sir Walter] considered the blessing of beauty as inferior to only to the blessing of a baronetcy

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Omniscient Narrator on Sir Walter (Chapter 1)

Card 3

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That Lady Russell...sould have thought no more of a steady marriage needs no apology to the public...but Sir Walter's continuing in singleness requires explanation

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Card 4

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But what was there for a father to do? This was quite the female case

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Card 5

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And indeed Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man, it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property....

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