Miss Mary Crawford Quotes

“A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

“I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”

“There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit. No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving or it”

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

“Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”