Mansfield Park Quotes

Let other pens dwell in guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

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

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

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.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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.