kayli’s Reviews > Mansfield Park > Status Update

“‘Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to any woman he may happen to like himself.’”

“‘Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback.’”

“‘We have all been more or less to blame,’ said he, ‘every one of us, excepting Fanny. Fanny is the only one who has judged rightly throughout, who has been consistent. Her feelings have been steadily against it from first to last. She never ceased to think of what was due to you. You will find Fanny every thing you could wish.’”

“‘Give me your approbation, then, Fanny. I am not comfortable without it….If you are against me, I ought to distrust myself….’”

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.”