“The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
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… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public;… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
