Mansfield Park Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jane Austen

  Praise, Neglect, Fearful

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Ideas

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

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Littles

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

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Giving, Further Education

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.477, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Wonderful, Operations

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.184

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Eye

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.185

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• 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

  Memories, Sometimes, Weak

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

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• 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

  Night, People, Sorrow

  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

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

  Jane Austen

  Religious, Past, Way

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.77

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

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Busy, Succession

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• 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

  Power, Done, Literature

  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.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

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

  Jane Austen

  Nature, Flower, Perfect

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.85

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• Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Opinion

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Fatigue, Jane

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.61

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• 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

  Love, Sports, Men

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.699, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  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.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

  Jane Austen

  Guilt, Comfort, Done

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.870, Ageless Reads

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

  Jane Austen

  Love, Enthusiasm, Biographers

  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.360, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Jane Austen

  Stupid, Prejudice, Common

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

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• 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

  Time, Watches, Literature

  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.301, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Jane Austen

  Moments, Form, Moments In Time

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• 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

  Past, Abundance, Settling

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

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• 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

  Memories, Past, Thinking

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

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