Extended excerpt [Fictional dialogue]:

“I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel any thing of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.” (p. 84)

Source link: Mansfield Park, Vol. II (1814) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/mansfieldparknov02aust#page/84/mode/2up

Extended excerpt [Fictional dialogue]:

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,” said Darcy. “Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will start it entirely away.” (p. 98)

Source link: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I (1813) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/JaneAusten-PrideandPrejudice-1sted-1813-vol1/Jane%20Austen%2C%20Pride%20and%20Prejudice%20%281st%20ed%2C%201813%2C%20vol%201%29#page/n103/mode/2up/search/nourishes+what+is+strong

Extended excerpt [Fiction – Character ‘Caroline Bingley’ to ‘Mr. Darcy’ & others in the room.]:

“At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, “How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” (p. 122)

Source note: An image of Jane Austen and this quote from Pride and Prejudice appears on the British £10 note issued in 2017. The choice of the seemingly-innocuous quote wasn’t a popular choice with Austen fans. In Austen’s novel, the deceitful character Caroline Bingley is only feigning interest in reading while trying to attract Mr. Darcy, her love interest.

Source link: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I (1813) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/JaneAusten-PrideandPrejudice-1sted-1813-vol1/Jane%20Austen%2C%20Pride%20and%20Prejudice%20%281st%20ed%2C%201813%2C%20vol%201%29#page/n127/mode/2up/search/enjoyment+like+reading

Extended excerpt [Letter to sister Cassandra Austen]:

“I returned from Manydown this morning, and found my mother certainly in no respect worse than when I left her. She does not like the cold weather, but that we cannot help. I spent my time very quietly and very pleasantly with Catherine. Miss Blackford is agreeable enough. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” (p. 184)

Source link: Letters of Jane Austen, Vol. I (1884) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjaneaus01aust#page/184/mode/2up/search/+to+be+very+agreeable

Extended excerpt [Fiction – character ‘Elizabeth’ writing to ‘Mrs. Gardiner’]:

“I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done, for your long, kind, satisfactory, detail of particulars; but to say the truth, I was too cross to write. You supposed more than really existed. But now suppose as much as you choose; give a loose to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly err.” (pp. 309-310)

Source link: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I (1813) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/JaneAusten-PrideandPrejudice-1sted-1813-vol3/Jane%20Austen%2C%20Pride%20and%20Prejudice%20%281st%20ed%2C%201813%2C%20vol%203%29#page/n315/mode/2up/search/every+possible+flight

Extended excerpt [Fiction – first lines of novel]:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.” (p. 1)

Source link: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. I (1813) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/JaneAusten-PrideandPrejudice-1sted-1813-vol1/Jane%20Austen%2C%20Pride%20and%20Prejudice%20%281st%20ed%2C%201813%2C%20vol%201%29#page/n7/mode/2up/search/truth+universally

Misquote note:

Austen’s quote is often cited by modern sources with edited punctuation and the word “you” omitted from the text:

Austen’s original text: “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

Misquote: “Know your own happiness. Want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.”

Extended excerpt [Fictional dialogue – character ‘Mrs. Dashwood’ to ‘Edward’]:

“Come, come; this is all an effusion of immediate want of spirits, Edward. You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” (p. 241)

Source link: Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I (1811) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/sensesensibility01aust#page/240/mode/2up/search/know+your+own+happiness

Extended excerpt [Fictional dialogue – ‘Elizabeth’ to ‘Mr. Darcy’]:

“You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.” (p. 91)

Source link: Pride and Prejudice, Vol. II (1813) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/prideandprejudi00sensgoog#page/n98/mode/2up/search/my+courage+always+rises

Extended excerpt [Referencing ‘Mr. W’ in a letter to her niece, Fanny Knight]:

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.” (p. 300)

Source link: Letters of Jane Austen, Vol. II (1884) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjaneaus02aust#page/300/mode/2up/search/pictures+of+perfection

Extended excerpt [Fiction = Narrator (Emma)]:

“Such expressions, assisted as they were by every thing that look and manner could do, made Emma feel that she had never loved Harriet so well, nor valued her affection so highly before.

   “There is no charm equal to tenderness of the heart,” said she afterwards to herself “There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction.” (p. 252)

Source link: Emma (December 1815|1816 John Murray ed.) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/emmanovel02aust#page/252/mode/2up/search/no+charm+equal

Attribution note:

The maxim “wisdom is better than wit” was widely used in Austen’s lifetime and is not original to this letter.

Extended excerpt [Letter to niece Fanny Knight]:

“Do not be frightened from the connection by your brothers having most wit – wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side; and don’t be frightened by the idea of his acting more strictly up to the precepts of the New Testament than others.” (p. 281)

Source link: Letters of Jane Austen, Vol. II (1884) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjaneaus02aust#page/280/mode/2up/search/long+run+will

Extended excerpt [Letter to sister Cassandra. Casual remark without additional context – full paragraph cited.]:

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” (p. 147)

Source link: Letters of Jane Austen, Vol. I (1884) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjaneaus01aust#page/146/mode/2up/search/dreadful+hot+weather

Extended excerpt [Conclusion of a letter to sister Cassandra Austen – ellipsis original to text]:

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. …God bless you! Yours affectionately, Jane Austen.” (p. 189)

Source link: Letters of Jane Austen, Vol. I (1884) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjaneaus01aust#page/188/mode/2up/search/deserve+a+longer+letter

Re-quote note: [Fictional dialogue – Jane Austen’s original text]

“Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles’ drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants’ eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches ot Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.” (p. 217)

[Source: Mansfield Park (1814) Vol. I, London: T. Egerton, 1814, p. 217; online via University of Illinois & Internet Archive, www.archive.org]

Extended excerpt [From the 1999 motion picture adaptation by Patricia Rozema. Script transcript via Repeat Right. Please see note below regarding the published text edition of Rozema’s script.]:

FANNY (Voice-over) [Image of parson & his wife moving furniture into the parsonage]

So there is a new clergyman moved into the parsonage.

[Fanny – seated at her writing desk – speaking directly to the camera]

FANNY

And…life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.” (18:19-18:29)

Source link [Featured source – Patricia Rozema film adaptation/script]: Mansfield Park (1999) Miramax Films; online via Amazon.com [rental service]: https://www.amazon.com/Mansfield-Park-Frances-OConnor/dp/B00742H26M/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Source [Patricia Rozema – film adaptation/script]: Editor’s copy – Mansfield Park: A Screenplay (2000) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-7868-8603-X

Source link [Jane Austen – original verse]: Mansfield Park, Vol. I (1814) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/mansfieldparknov01aust#page/216/mode/2up/search/busy+nothings

Extended excerpt [Fictional dialogue – Jane Austen’s original text]:

“Ah! You have been in a bad school for matrimony, in Hill Street.”

“My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but, however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manœuvering business. I know so many who are married I the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse!” (p. 93)

[Source: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) Vol. I, London: T. Egerton, 1814, p. 93; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org]

Re-quote note: The quote featured here – and frequently credited directly to Austen – is from the 1999 motion picture script adaptation of Austen’s Mansfield Park by Patricia Rozema:

“The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

Extended excerpt [From the 1999 motion picture adaptation by Patricia Rozema. Script transcript via Repeat Right. Please see note below regarding the published text edition of Rozema’s script.]:

“FANNY (Narration/voice-over)

The bridge was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior.

Cut to: Lady Bertram (the bride’s mother) looking tired.

FANNY (Narration/voice-over)

Her mother stood with salts in her hand, expecting to be agitated,

Cut to: Mrs. Norris (the bride’s aunt), wincing and dabbing her eyes.

FANNY (Voice-over, cont.’d)

…and her aunt tried to cry.

Cut to: Fanny – seated at her desk, with writing quill in hand

FANNY (direct to camera)

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

Source note: While the quoted line does appear in the 1999 Miramax motion picture adaptation of Mansfield Park, it notably does NOT appear in the Miramax Books edition of the Patricia Rozema’s screenplay script. While the lines proceeding it are included in the book edition we viewed, the scene ends without mentioning the camera view of Fanny or the “Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business” line.

Excerpt from the print edition of Mansfield Park: A Screenplay (2000). “Final Shooting Script,” first edition:

FANNY (Voice-over)

The bridge was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior.

Cut to: Lady Bertram looking tired.

FANNY (Voice-over)

Her mother stood with salts in her hand, expecting to be agitated…

Cut to: Mrs. Norris.

FANNY (Voice-over, cont.’d)

…and her aunt tried to cry. (Scene 74 – “Int. Church – Day,” p. 70)

[Source: Patricia Rozema, Canadian screenplay author & director, Mansfield Park: A Screenplay, Miramax Books, April 2000, p. 70]

Source link [Patricia Rozema film adaptation – Featured source]: Mansfield Park (1999) Miramax Films; online via Amazon.com [rental service]: https://www.amazon.com/Mansfield-Park-Frances-OConnor/dp/B00742H26M/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Source [Patricia Rozema script, text edition – Source note]: Editor’s copy – Mansfield Park: A Screenplay (2000) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-7868-8603-X

Source links [Jane Austen’s original verse – Re-quote note]: Mansfield Park (1814) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/mansfieldparknov01aust#page/92/mode/2up/search/poor+aunt

Misattribution notes:

There are a number of different versions of the “scars-remind-us” quote that date back to at least the 1800s.  Several modern versions that have been widely quoted include:

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

~Cormac McCarthy, American author, All the Pretty Horses (1992) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, June 1997 edition, p. 135

Extended excerpt [Fiction]: “She watched him, not unkindly. She smiled. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they?” (p. 135)

“[O]ur scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.”

~Ted Tally, American screenwriter, Red Dragon (2002) motion picture script adaptation of Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, November 1981; line spoke by character ‘Hannibal Lecter’ (actor Anthony Hopkins) director Brett Ratner, Los Angeles, CA: Universal Studios; online via Amazon [subscription service] www.amazon.com

Extended excerpt [Motion picture. Character ‘Hannibal Lecter,’ writing a letter to ‘Will Graham’]: “What a collection of scars you have. Never forget who gave you the best of them, and be grateful; our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.”

“[O]ur scars remind us that the past is real.”

~ Jacoby Shaddix , lead singer of American band Papa Roach, with David Buckner, Tobin Esperance & Jerry Horton, Jr., “Scars” (2005) Getting Away with Murder album, Los Angeles, CA: Geffen Records; “Scars – Version 1” (2005) Papa Roach music video; online via Vevo (video – 3:28) imvdb.com

Extended excerpt [Song lyrics – chorus]:

“I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut

My weakness is that I care too much

And my scars remind me that the past is real

I tear my heart open just to feel.”

Source [1992 – McCarthy]: Editor’s copy – All the Pretty Horses (1992 | 1997 Alfred Knopf) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-394-574-74-5

Source link [2002 – Tally]: Red Dragon (2002) Motion picture – Rental available online via Amazon.com [subscription service]: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Dragon-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B001LX2J22

Source link [2005  – Papa Roach]: “Scars – Version 1” (2005) Papa Roach music video; online via Vevo: https://imvdb.com/video/papa-roach/scars

Misattibution notes:

The Patricia Rozema Mansfield Park screenplay quote has been widely – and incorrectly – attributed to the original Mansfield park novel author Jane Austen. Although the 1999 movie Mansfield Park was adapted from Austen’s 1814 novel of the same title, the screenplay (script) was altered to accommodate live-performance dialogue, the flow of the story line, etc. The cited line (or a variation of it) does NOT appear in Austen’s original Mansfield Park manuscripts (volumes 1-3), and to date we have not found a similar line in other Austen manuscripts or letters.

Hat tip to author & Austen affecionado Deborah Yaffe, who included this quote in an information 2016 list of Jane Austen misattributions and misquotes. To view Yaffe’s blog and quote list, please see “Getting it wrong, again” (7 March 2016) www.deborahyaffe.com: http://www.deborahyaffe.com/blog/4586114521/Getting-it-wrong-again/10577489

Extended excerpt [From the 1999 motion picture adaptation by Patricia Rozema. Dialogue between characters ‘Edmund’ & ‘Mary,’ as they watch other people dance from the side of a room. Script transcript via Repeat Right. Please see note below regarding the published text edition of Rozema’s script.]:

Mary is standing in the corner of the room and watching Fanny & Edmund talk. Fanny walks away, and Edmund, smiling, watches her. Mary approaches and begins speaking just before she is standing at Edmund’s side.]

MARY: Edmund. I think you should admit that you are in love with Fanny Price.

EDMUND: Well, of course I love her. But – there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” (49:04-49:18)

Source note: While the quoted line appears in both the 1999 Miramax motion picture Mansfield Park and the 2000 Miramax Books “Final Shooting Script” edition of Patricia Rozema’s screenplay, the excerpts are not exactly the same.

The corresponding excerpt from the print edition of Mansfield Park: A Screenplay (2000). “Final Shooting Script,” first edition.:

Mary leans in to whisper something in Edmund’s ear.

MARY: I think you should admit you are in love with Fanny Price, Edmund.

EDMUND: Of course I love her, Mary. (another turn) But there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” (p. 79)

[Source: Patricia Rozema, Canadian screenplay author & director, Mansfield Park: A Screenplay, Miramax Books, April 2000, p. 79]

Source link [Featured quote – Patricia Rozema film adaptation]: Mansfield Park (1999) Miramax Films; online via Amazon.com [rental service]: https://www.amazon.com/Mansfield-Park-Frances-OConnor/dp/B00742H26M/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Source [Source note -Patricia Rozema film adaptation/script]: Editor’s copy – Mansfield Park: A Screenplay (2000) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-7868-8603-X

Misattibution note:

This quote has been widely – and incorrectly – attributed to English author Jane Austen. Although the 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility was adapted from Austen’s 1811 novel of the same title, as with most movies the screenplay (script) was adapted to accommodate live-performance dialogue, the flow of the story line, etc. The cited line does not appear in Austen’s original Emma manuscript, and to date we have not found evidence that it appeared in any of Austen’s other novels or letters. The quote should be attributed directly to contemporary screenplay author Emma Thompson.

Extended excerpt  [Movie screenplay]:

“MRS. DASHWOOD: Elinor has not your feelings, his reserve suits her.

[MARIANNE thinks for a little]

MARIANNE: Can he love her? Can the ardour of the soul really be satisfied with such polite, concealed affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire, all made of passion, of adoration, of sacrifice!”

Source link: Sense and Sensibility (1995 screenplay by Emma Thompson) online via Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb): http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Sense-and-Sensibility.html

Misattibution & re-quote notes:

In the 2007 Masterpiece Theatre script adaptation of Mansfield Park, screenwriter Maggie Wadey paraphrased author Jane Austen’s original dialogue between characters Fanny Price and Mr. Crawford:

Maggie Wadey – Mansfield Park televised film (2007) – [Character ‘Fanny Price,’ speaking to ‘Mr. Crawford’ during a walk in the garden.]

“I can’t guide you. We all have our best guides within us. If only we would listen.”

Jane Austen – Mansfield Park novel (1814) – [Chapter XI. Character ‘Fanny Price,’ speaking to ‘Mr. Crawford’ during a walk.]

“Oh, no! – do not say so. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Good bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.” (pp. 221-222)

[Source: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814) Vol. III, London: T. Egerton, 1814, pp. 221-222; online via University of Illinois & Internet Archive, www.archive.org]

Extended excerpt: [Movie screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen’s original novel. Character ‘Fanny Price,’ speaking to ‘Mr. Crawford’ during a walk in the garden. Transcript – Repeat Right.]

Mr. Crawford – I’ve been thinking of you constantly. Have I not proved myself?

Fanny Price – I just don’t know how to answer you.

Mr. Crawford – You know how to answer me. Just give me some sign, Fanny, no matter how small. Tell me I may look forward to being happy. Help me, Fanny. Guide me.

Fanny Price – “I can’t guide you. We all have our best guides within us. If only we would listen.”

Source link [Featured quote – Wadey screenplay]: Mansfield Park (2007|U.S. air date 27 January 2008) online via Masterpiece Theatre: http://mpt-legacy.wgbhdigital.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mansfieldpark/index.html

Source link [Jane Austen – original novel]: Mansfield Park, Vol. III (1815) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/mansfieldparknov03aust#page/222/mode/2up/search/attend+to