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Maria Edgeworth Quotes

1768–1849 England

Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a popular and influential Anglo-Irish novelist, short-story writer and educationalist.

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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (1795)

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Essay on Irish Bulls (1802)

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Thoughts on Bores (1833)

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

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.

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.

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.

Letters for Literary Ladies (1795)

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Helen (1834)

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Castle Rackrent (1800)

Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended…The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

Patronage (1814)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maria Edgeworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.