Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which…

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier