Famous Quotes by Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Below are famous quotes by Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - English novelist (1775 - 1817).

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

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I pay very little regard...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.

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.

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

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.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

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

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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