Top 25 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth of 87 - Page 4

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.

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.

Maria Edgeworth

Children, Sight, House

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.258

Nature's hasty conscience.

Maria Edgeworth

Shame, Hasty, Conscience

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.150

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

Maria Edgeworth

Hospitality, Monument, Died

1800 Castle Rackrent,'An Hibernian Tale'.

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.

Maria Edgeworth

Two, Contentment, Firsts

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.169

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.

Maria Edgeworth

Journey, Wings, Gentleman

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.314

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?

Maria Edgeworth

Beer, Whiskey, Drink

1800 Castle Rackrent,'History of Sir Conolly Rackrent'.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Maria Edgeworth

Giving, Receiving, Flattery

Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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.

Maria Edgeworth

Travel, Horse, Ideas

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.2

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Maria Edgeworth

Home, People, Different

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.116

Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.

Maria Edgeworth

Let Me, Specks, Whole

1812 The Absentee, ch.11.

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.

Maria Edgeworth

Daughter, Self, Practice

'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification' (1787)