Quotes from book

Mansfield Park

“You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.”

“I have no talent for certainty.”

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

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

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

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

“Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.”

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“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.”