Mansfield Park Quotes

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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.

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.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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

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

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

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

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

The manners I speak of might rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and recommend; and 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.

The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.