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Mansfield Park QUOTES

Mansfield Park QUOTES

1 " Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

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

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

3 " He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

4 " But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

5 " I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy? "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

6 " Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

7 " …for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

8 " Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

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

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

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

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

11 " The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

12 " ...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

13 " I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

14 " 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; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

15 " 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 , Mansfield Park

16 " So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

17 " I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

18 " I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

19 " Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business. "

― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park

20 " 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 , Mansfield Park