Jane Austen Mansfield Park Quotes

#1. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.

Jane Austen

#2. My beloved Laura" (said she to me a few Hours before she died) "take warning from my unhappy End ... Beware of fainting-fits ... Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint - ".

Jane Austen

#3. I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

Rachel Kushner

#4. I was quiet, but I was not blind.

Jane Austen

#5. My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Betty Cuthbert

#6. The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

Lance Morrow

#7. Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Programming is an explanatory activity.

Roman Harper

#9. 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.

Jane Austen

#10. That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.

Jane Austen

#11. I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

Victoria Smurfit

#12. Did you just say you
Think Mansfield Park is boring?
Get out of my house.

Joel Derfner

#13. 'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

Susanna Clarke

#14. Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

Jane Austen