Choice Words from Jane Austen

These are taken from Mansfield Park, a book I've generally been disappointed with, simply because I dislike the heroine and hero, though I've started to wonder if there is in fact yet another level at work in this book I've been missing.

At any rate, this particular quote made my eyebrows shoot for the heavens:

"In a review of the two houses, as they appeared to her before the end of a week, Fanny was tempted to apply to them Dr. Johnson's celebrated judgment as to matrimony and celibacy, and say, that though Mansfield Park might have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures."