Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Quotes about:

• The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Love, Life, Heart

  Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52

  53 Copy quote

• Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Inspirational, Depressing, Anticipation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

  53 Copy quote

• We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Use, May, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls”, p.303

  25 Copy quote

• Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Spring, Action

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

  5 Copy quote

• Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Promise, Dangerous

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

  7 Copy quote

• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

  7 Copy quote

• Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

  Maria Edgeworth

  Pain, Knows

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Tales and novels: in 9 volumes”, p.265

  11 Copy quote

• Confidence is the best proof of love.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Proof Of Love, Proof

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.426

  6 Copy quote

• Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Health, Making Money

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.173

  5 Copy quote

• We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Prejudice, Opinion

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.145

  5 Copy quote

• Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Aversion, Pleasure

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 2

  7 Copy quote

• Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

  Maria Edgeworth

  People, Judging, Remember

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works”, p.329

  9 Copy quote

• If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Belief, Trouble, Young

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.373

  18 Copy quote

• Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Passion, Moments, Natural

  Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

  4 Copy quote

• tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Injustice, Produce, Tyranny

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.8

  7 Copy quote

• In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Friendship, Real, Party

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.52

  11 Copy quote

• No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Confidence, Laughter, Men

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17”, p.146

  5 Copy quote

• wit is often its own worst enemy.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Wit

  Maria Edgeworth (1857). “Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond”, p.225

  11 Copy quote

• My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Wise, Mother, Eye

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.2

  7 Copy quote

• It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

  Maria Edgeworth

  May, Imagine, Easy

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.227

  6 Copy quote

• It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Courage, Sometimes, Danger

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack”, p.380

  6 Copy quote

• Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Class, Arguing, Reason

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

  10 Copy quote

• Justice satisfies everybody.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Justice

  Maria Edgeworth (1867). “Frank”, p.68

  8 Copy quote

• What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Light, Darkness, Rays

  1806 Leonora, letter 1.

  15 Copy quote

Page 1 of 4

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin