“Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
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Famous Maria Edgeworth Quotes
“Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“there is no reasoning with imagination.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.”
Source: Works
“Justice satisfies everybody.”
Source: Frank
“how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth
Source: Works
Source: Works
“We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.”
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.”
Source: Harrington, and thoughts on bores, v. 17-18
Source: Works
Source: Works
“wit is often its own worst enemy.”
Source: Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond
“Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
Source: Works
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Letters to literary ladies. Castle Rackrent. Leonora. Essay on Irish bulls. 1824
Source: Works
Source: Works
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
Source: Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”
Source: Helen, etc
“Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.”
Source: Works
Source: Works
Source: Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond
Source: Works
“We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.”
“Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.”
Source: Tales and Novels
“How success changes the opinion of men!”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823
“Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.”
Source: Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life
“I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.”
Source: Tales and Novels