Maria Edgeworth Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

• Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Aversion, Pleasure

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 2

• Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Mind, Liberty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.198

• Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sports, Men, Ideas

  'Letters of Julia and Caroline' (1787) Letter 1

• A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Country, Men, Pleasure

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works”, p.65

• Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Book, Thinking, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1895). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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