Edgeworth Quotes
Collection of top 66 famous quotes about Edgeworth
Edgeworth Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Edgeworth quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
— Maria Edgeworth
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
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
— Maria Edgeworth
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
— Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
— Maria Edgeworth
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
— Maria Edgeworth
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.
— Maria Edgeworth
Sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
— Maria Edgeworth
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
— Maria Edgeworth
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
— Maria Edgeworth
There is no reasoning with imagination.
— Maria Edgeworth
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
— Maria Edgeworth
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
— Maria Edgeworth
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.
— Maria Edgeworth
Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
— Maria Edgeworth
You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
— Maria Edgeworth
When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.
— Maria Edgeworth
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
— Maria Edgeworth
Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
— Maria Edgeworth
Confidence is the best proof of love.
— Maria Edgeworth
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
— Maria Edgeworth
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
— Maria Edgeworth
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
— Maria Edgeworth
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
— Maria Edgeworth
What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heartall hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best. — Maria Edgeworth
A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
— Maria Edgeworth
Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined.
— Maria Edgeworth
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
— Maria Edgeworth
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
— Maria Edgeworth
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
— Maria Edgeworth
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
— Maria Edgeworth
A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
— Erasmus Darwin
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
— Maria Edgeworth
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
— Maria Edgeworth
Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
— Maria Edgeworth
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
— Maria Edgeworth
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
— Maria Edgeworth
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
— Maria Edgeworth
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
— Maria Edgeworth
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
— Maria Edgeworth
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
— Maria Edgeworth
How success changes the opinion of men!
— Maria Edgeworth
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
— Maria Edgeworth
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
— Maria Edgeworth
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
— Maria Edgeworth
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
— Maria Edgeworth
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
— Maria Edgeworth
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
— Maria Edgeworth
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
— Maria Edgeworth
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.
— Maria Edgeworth
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
— Maria Edgeworth
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...
— Maria Edgeworth
When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
— Maria Edgeworth
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?
— Maria Edgeworth
Wit is often its own worst enemy.
— Maria Edgeworth
Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
— Maria Edgeworth
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
— Maria Edgeworth
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
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
— Maria Edgeworth
