Lady Russell Quotes

“It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.”
― Jane Austen

“I have always heard of Lady Russell, as a woman of the greatest influence with every body! I always look upon her as able to persuade a person to do any thing! I am afraid of her, as I have told you before, quite afraid of her, because she is so very clever; but I respect her amazingly, and I wish we had such a neighbor at Uppercross.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“(...) No tiene por qué ser explicado al público, que está tan dispuesto a sentirse irrazonablemente descontento cuando una mujer no se vuelve a casar como cuando sucede lo contrario.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities.”
― Jane Austen