Sir Thomas Bertram Quotes in Mansfield Park (1999)

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: Tom! You will do as I say!

Tom Bertram: What, and do as you do? Even I have principles, sir.

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...