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Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Amelia B. Edwards
Believe, Easy, Pleasant

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Amelia B. Edwards
Literature, Leisure, Fruit
Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

Amelia B. Edwards
Book, Science, Egypt

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia B. Edwards
People, World, Valuation

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Amelia B. Edwards
Reform, Ruins, Reformation
Amelia B. Edwards (1865). “Half a Million of Money”, p.241

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia B. Edwards
Love, Powerful, Memories

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Amelia B. Edwards
Lying, Camels, Virtue
Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia B. Edwards
Real, Adversity, Littles

Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

Amelia B. Edwards
Men, Garden, Roots

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards
Egypt, Said, Facade
Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia B. Edwards
Art, Knowledge, Science

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