Quotes About Mansfield Park

#1. In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.

Susanna Clarke

#2. I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

Susanna Clarke

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

Joel Derfner

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

Susanna Clarke

#5. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.

Barbara Pym

#6. Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

Charlton Laird

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

Jane Austen

#8. I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes me impatient at moments when I doubt if she was meant to.

A. C. Bradley

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Just what I predicted," he smiled. "Run, little sheep. Run. For soon, the big bad wolf will have you right where you belong," Crispin whispered as he manifested out of the school.


~Crispin~

J.L. Clayton

#12. I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

Ron Paul

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

Jane Austen

#14. Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. 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

#16. Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Cassandra Clare

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

Jane Austen