Mansfield Park Quotes:

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.287

topic: Inspiring, Mind, Mansfield Park

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Literature, Opinion, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1867). “Mansfield Park: A Novel”, p.186, Bronson Tweed Publishing

topic: Ideas, Mansfield Park

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.310, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Mansfield Park, Satisfied

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.244, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Praise, Neglect, Mansfield Park

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

- Jane Austen

topic: Men, Killing, Stage, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Yourself, Mansfield Park

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

- Jane Austen

topic: Sadness, House, Guilt, Mansfield Park

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.1

topic: Men, Pretty Woman, World, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Nature, Taste, Given, Mansfield Park

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

- Jane Austen

topic: Running, Mad, You Choose, Mansfield Park

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.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.532, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Inspiring, Believe, Church, Mansfield Park, Clergy

I was quiet but I was not blind.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.439, Collector's Library

topic: Quiet, Blind, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Hope, Selfish, Literature, Mansfield Park, I Am Selfish

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Miserable, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

topic: Writing, Suspense, Ends, Mansfield Park

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.40, Trajectory Inc

topic: Stupid, Men, Years, Mansfield Park, Very Stupid

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Sorrow, Employment, May, Mansfield Park

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...

- Jane Austen

topic: Sister, Children, Mean, Mansfield Park, Brothers And Sisters

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

- Jane Austen

source: "Mansfield Park". Volume I,

topic: Education, Book, Reading, Mansfield Park, Fondness

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.215

topic: Games, Strive, Born, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1867). “Mansfield Park: A Novel”, p.43, Bronson Tweed Publishing

topic: People, Advantage, Should, Mansfield Park

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.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

topic: Beautiful, Country, Thinking, Mansfield Park, Evergreens

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Men, Body, Information, Mansfield Park, Denominations

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.219, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Together, Borders, Half, Mansfield Park, Matter Of Fact

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

- Jane Austen

source: 1814 Mansfield Park, ch.5.

topic: Sex, Truth, Honesty, Mansfield Park

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

- Jane Austen

topic: Heart, Sunday, Hands, Mansfield Park, Sunday Evening

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

- Jane Austen

topic: Eye, Sight, Hands, 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.

- Jane Austen

source: Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Love, Marriage, Littles, Mansfield Park

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

- Jane Austen

topic: Inspirational, Girl, Education, Mansfield Park, Further Education

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

- Jane Austen

topic: Mind, Wonderful, Operations, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Nature, Eye, Rambling, Mansfield Park

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

topic: Memories, Sometimes, Weak, Mansfield Park, Bewildered

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.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.328, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Night, People, Sorrow, Mansfield Park, Sublimity

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

- Jane Austen

topic: Religious, Past, Way, Mansfield Park

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Happiness, Happy, Money, Mansfield Park, Jane

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

- Jane Austen

topic: Busy, Busy Life, Succession, Mansfield Park, Being Busy

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.

- Jane Austen

topic: Power, May, Safe, Mansfield Park, Jane

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Nature, Flower, Perfect, Beautiful Nature, Mansfield Park

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

- Jane Austen

topic: Fatigue, Mansfield Park

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

- Jane Austen

topic: Love, Sports, Men, Mansfield Park

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

- Jane Austen

topic: Attitude, Disappointment, Expectations, Mansfield Park

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

topic: Love, Love Is, Enthusiasm, Mansfield Park, Biographers

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

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.108, Oxford University Press

topic: Stupid, Prejudice, Common, Mansfield Park

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

- Jane Austen

topic: Time, Watches, Literature, Mansfield Park

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

- Jane Austen

topic: Moments, Form, Moments In Time, Mansfield Park, Forms Of Love

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

topic: Past, Abundance, Settling, Mansfield Park

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Memories, Past, Thinking, Mansfield Park, Beyond Control