Harriet Martineau Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Marriage, Men

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

• What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

• I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

  Harriet Martineau

  Writing, Literature, Traveler

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.330, Broadview Press

• But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

  Harriet Martineau

  Nature, Healthy, Literature

  Harriet Martineau (1962). “Society in America”

• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  Harriet Martineau

  Religion, Atheism, Literature

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

• Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Men, Literature

• The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, America, Training

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

• A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

  Harriet Martineau

  Queens, America, Evil

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.317, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

  Harriet Martineau

  Order, Law, America

  Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”

• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Modesty, Fidelity

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  Harriet Martineau

  Aquariums, Essentials, Literature

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.645, Broadview Press

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