Maria Edgeworth Quotes

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.

Nature's Hasty Conscience.

According To The Asiatics, Cupid's Bow Is Strung With Bees Which Are Apt To Sting, Sometimes Fatally, Those Who Meddle With It.

Possessed, As Are All The Fair Daughters Of Eve, Of An Hereditary Propensity, Transmitted To Them Undiminished Through Succeeding Generations, To Be 'soonmoved Withtheslightesttouch Of Blame'; Very Little Precept And Practice Will Confirm Them In The Habit, And Instruct Them All The Maxims, Of Self-justification.

Those Who Have Lived In A House With Spoiled Children Must Have A Lively Recollection Of The Degree Of Torment They Can Inflict Upon All Who Are Within Sight Or Hearing.

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.

Let Menot, Even Inmyownmind, Committheinjustice Of Taking A Speck For The Whole.

Now Flattery Can Never Do Good; Twice Cursed In The Giving And The Receiving, It Ought To Be.

Bishop Wilkins Prophesied That The Time Would Come When Gentlemen, When They Were To Go On A Journey, Would Call For Their Wings As Regularly As They Call For Their Boots.

I ... Practiced All The Arts Of Apology, Evasion, And Invisibility, To Which Procrastinators Must Sooner Or Later Be Reduced.

Sir Patrick Rackrent Lived And Died A Monument Of Old Irish Hospitality.

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.