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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Sep 10, 2025
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 is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.
I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
I was quiet but I was not blind.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.
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.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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.
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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.
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.
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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.
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
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.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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.
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.