Persuasion Quotes
Anne Elliot: But I so dislike Bath.
Lady Russell: Only because you associate it with the passing of your dear mother.
Lady Russell: Only because you associate it with the passing of your dear mother.
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Anne: Oh, why is the whole town suffering from this dreadful misapprehension that I shall marry him!
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Brittany Wells: [after both being cast in the play, The Diary of Anne Frank] Down with Nazis!
Kimberly Joyce: Yeah, boo nazis!
Kimberly Joyce: Yeah, boo nazis!
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Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature.
Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved.
Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex?
Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world.
Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness.
Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved.
Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex?
Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world.
Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness.
Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
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Josh Birdwell: I don't want to die. I don't think I could kill anyone if I tried. But I have to try, so long as other people have to.
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Randa: [watching a porno] Why is that woman - why is she doing those things with another woman? Why must they show this?
Kimberly Joyce: Because men like to watch it.
Randa: But it is a sin!
Kimberly Joyce: [laughs] Randa! Randa, you're gonna find out that a lot of things men like are a sin.
Kimberly Joyce: Because men like to watch it.
Randa: But it is a sin!
Kimberly Joyce: [laughs] Randa! Randa, you're gonna find out that a lot of things men like are a sin.
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