Maria Edgeworth Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
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.