I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tag: Persuasion
Wordsmitten Wednesday: Lyme
A very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Wordsmitten Wednesday: Persuasion
“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion