Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Quotes

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.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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

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

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.

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

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

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

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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

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

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?