- Edmund Bertram: Fanny, I must confess something. I've loved you all my life.
- Fanny Price: I know, Edmund.
- Edmund Bertram: No, Fanny, as a man loves a woman. As a hero loves a heroine. As I have never loved anyone in my entire life. .
- Henry Crawford: What? A compliment? Heavens rejoice, she complimented me!
- Fanny Price: I complimented your dancing, Mr. Crawford, keep your wig on.
- Fanny Price: [referring to Henry Crawford] I do not trust him, sir.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: What do you distrust?
- Fanny Price: His nature, sir. Like many charming people, he conceals an almost absolute dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: And what is the terrible ill in that?
- Fanny Price: His sole interest is in being loved, sir, not in loving.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: You've read too many novels, girl!
- Fanny Price: Well, Lady Bertram is always suffering near-fatal fatigue.
- Susan Price: From what?
- Fanny Price: Usually from embroidering something of little use and no beauty... not to mention a healthy dose of opium every day.
- Susan Price: Your tongue is sharper than a guillotine, Fanny.
- Fanny Price: The effect of education, I suppose.
- Edmund Bertram: Your startling adaptability to my brother's possible demise sends a chill through my heart. A chill. And cheerfully planning parties with his money. And you shush my father like a dog at your table. You attack Fanny for following her own, infallible, internal guide about matters of the heart. All of this has most grievously convinced me that the person I've been so apt to dwell on for many months past has been a creature of my own imagination. Not you, Miss Crawford. You are a stranger to me. I do not know you and I'm sorry to say, I have no wish to.
- Henry Crawford: And what is your opinion, Miss Price?
- Fanny Price: I am sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Crawford, but I'm afraid I do not have a ready opinion.
- Henry Crawford: I suspect you are almost entirely composed of ready opinions not yet shared.
- Lady Bertram: [to Fanny Price] And I'll tell you one thing, which is more than I did for Maria. The next time my pug has a litter, you shall have a puppy.
- Henry Crawford: Fanny, you have created sensations which my heart has never known before.
- Fanny Price: Please.
- Henry Crawford: There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
- Fanny Price: Mr. Crawford, do not speak nonsense.
- Henry Crawford: Nonsense?
- Fanny Price: You are such a fine speaker that I'm afraid you may actually end in convincing yourself.
- Henry Crawford: Fanny. You are killing me.
- Fanny Price: No man dies of love but on the stage.
- Susan Price: So, this Henry Crawford, what's he like?
- Fanny Price: A rake. I think.
- Susan Price: Oh, yes, please.
- Fanny Price: They amuse more in literature than they do in life.
- Susan Price: Yes, but they amuse.
- Edmund Bertram: Oh, don't be an imbecile.
- Fanny Price: Oh, but imbecility in women is a great enhancement to their personal charms.
- Edmund Bertram: Fanny, you're being irrational.
- Fanny Price: Yet another adornment. I must be ravishing.
- Fanny Price: It could have turned out differently, I suppose.
- [All the characters pause and look thoughtful]
- Fanny Price: But it didn't.
- Mary Crawford: Gentlemen, Fanny Price is almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women are of neglect.
- [to Edmund Bertram as she is leaving to return home]
- Fanny Price: I hope... I hope you know how much... how much I shall... write to you...
- Fanny Price: Poverty frightens me. And a woman's poverty is a slavery even more harsh than a man's.
- Henry Crawford: Mm, arguable. But it need not be your lot.
- Fanny Price: I know.
- Henry Crawford: You can live out your days in comfort - with me.
- Fanny Price: I know.
- Henry Crawford: You do?
- Fanny Price: Yes.
- Henry Crawford: Is that a yes?
- Fanny Price: Yes.
- Henry Crawford: Is that *the* "yes" that I have heard a hundred times in my heart, but not from you? Oh, Fanny Price. You will learn to love me. Say it again.
- Fanny Price: Yes.
- Henry Crawford: Say it again, please. Say it.
- Fanny Price: Yes!
- Fanny Price: Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. 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.
- Edmund Bertram: Fanny, you really must begin to harden yourself to the idea of... being worth looking at.
- Edmund Bertram: She does not think evil, but she speaks it. It grieves me to the soul.
- Fanny Price: The effect of education, perhaps.
- Edmund Bertram: [scoffs] Perhaps I can uneducate her.
- Mary Crawford: What I'm keen to know is which gentleman among you am I to have the pleasure of making love to?
- Sir Thomas Bertram: Tom! You will do as I say!
- Tom Bertram: What, and do as you do? Even I have principles, sir.
- Tom Bertram: Do you know it's 5 o'clock in the morning?
- Carriage Driver: Mrs Norris arranged for this girl to be brought here. It's her niece, or something.
- Tom Bertram: Mrs Norris lives in the parsonage over there.
- Carriage Driver: I was told most definitely to drop her at the front entrance of Mansfield Park.
- Tom Bertram: Then drop her.
- Edmund Bertram: Is there anything to be done?
- Dr. Winthrop: Wait.
- Edmund Bertram: Wait?
- Dr. Winthrop: Yes. Time can do almost anything.
- Young Fanny: Excuse me?
- Mrs. Norris: Yes?
- Young Fanny: How long am I expected to remain here?
- Mrs. Norris: That depends, doesn't it? But if all goes well... Forever.
- Fanny Price: To be at home again, to be loved by my family, to feel affection without fear or restraint and to feel myself the equal of those that surround me.
- Maria Elizabeth Bertram: Father, I wish to speak to you about Rushworth.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: Maria, yes. Now, you know how eagerly disposed I was to like your Mr. Rushworth...
- Maria Elizabeth Bertram: ...but you think him an inferior young man, as ignorant in business as in books, with opinions in general unfixed, and without seeming much aware of it himself.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: Well...
- Henry Crawford: You dance like an angel, Miss Price.
- Fanny Price: One does not dance like an angel alone, Mr. Crawford.
- Edmund Bertram: Your entire person is entirely agreeable.
- Fanny Price: Yes, well, tonight I agree with everyone.
- Fanny Price: All those quarrels and wars! The men all good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. It's very tiresome. I often think it odd that history should be so dull. A great deal of it must be invention.
- Mary Crawford: Stay, stay. Stay! We need an audience. We all need an audience, wouldn't you say, Fanny?
- Fanny Price: To be truthful, I live in dread of audiences.
- Young Fanny: Please do not trouble yourself on my behalf...
- Mrs. Norris: Shh! You speak when you are spoken to.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: You girls must never be arrogant towards her. She is not your equal. But that must never be apparent to her. It is a point of great delicacy.
- Young Fanny: Eliza eloped to Paris with her lover. Unfortunately, she lived beyond her means and was imprisoned and partially eaten by her two young sons. But she intends to murder the guards. I'll keep you abreast of any further developments.
- Edmund Bertram: My gifts are nothing next to yours. My writing is wood - compared to your wild constructions.
- Fanny Price: Yes, I'm a wild beast! I'm sure Sir Thomas would agree.
- Edmund Bertram: Don't concern yourself with his gravity, Fanny.
- Young Fanny: How long am I expected to remain here?
- Mrs. Norris: Well, that depends, doesn't it? But, if all goes well - forever.
- Mrs. Norris: I hope you don't tend toward sulkiness, dear. Your mother certainly had the inclination.
- Edmund Bertram: it's just his problems with the slaves on the plantation. The abolitionists are making inroads.
- Fanny Price: And that's a good thing, isn't it?
- Edmund Bertram: Well, we all live off the profits, Fanny. Including you.
- Henry Crawford: An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged.She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged. No harm can be done.