Maria Edgeworth Quotes

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

Justice satisfies everybody.