Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
1851–1920 Australia
Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) (June 11, 1851 – March 26, 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward.
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Also known as: Augusta Arnold Ward, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Ward, Augusta Arnold, Ward, Mary Augusta
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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)
Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell.
Robert Elsmere (1888)
[M]y credo is very short. Its first article is art—and its second is art—and its third is art!
The History of David Grieve (1891)
[T]he delight in natural things—colours, forms, scents—when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.
A Writer's Recollections (1918)