Quotes on Mansfield Park

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.