[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life. — 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 Image
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
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 opinions, there is no use in reading. — 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 Image
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
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 Image
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