Top 8 Quotes by Sydney, Lady Morgan

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Good Friend, Imagination, Mind

Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1808). “The wild Irish girl: a national tale”, p.58

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Light, Evil, Giving

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Weakness

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Cat, People, Half

Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1829). “The Book of the Boudoir”, p.43

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Giving, Age, Taste

Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

Mistake, Sadness, Thinking