Quotes From "Mansfield Park" By Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I...
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will...
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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything. Jane Austen
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Jane Austen
I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said...
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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
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very...
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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer. Jane Austen
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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. Jane Austen
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. Jane Austen
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education...
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we...
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be Jane Austen
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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
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...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained. Jane Austen
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Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony! " said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what may tranquillise every care, and lift the heart to rapture! 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
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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
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I pay very little regard, " said Mrs. Grant, "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
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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
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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
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So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing. Jane Austen
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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
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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.. Jane Austen
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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
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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
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart Jane Austen
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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for her not to be happy. Jane Austen
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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
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. Jane Austen
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He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before… Jane Austen
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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. Jane Austen
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Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well. Jane Austen
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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, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting. Jane Austen
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I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10) Jane Austen
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You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, beyond what - not merely beyond what one sees, because one never sees any thing like it - but beyond what one fancies might be. But still I am not frightened. It is not by equality of merit that you can be won. That is out of the question. It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.” (326) . Jane Austen
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Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without? Jane Austen
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It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated---her aunt tried to cry--- and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant. Jane Austen
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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children. Jane Austen
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The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them whenever she could get him alone; and as she depended on being the first person made acquainted with any fatal catastrophe, she had already arranged the manner of breaking it to all the others, when Sir Thomas's assurances of their both being alive and well made it necessary to lay by her agitation and affectionate preparatory speeches for a while. Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
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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. Jane Austen