All Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
- My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight… Daughter
- Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. Born
- Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. Any
- A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… Among
- As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Concerned
- But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. Always Thinking
- A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first… Became
- But no man has a monopoly of conscience. Conscience
- But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep. Far
- English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards… Astonishing
- How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of… Century
- I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many. Cannot Hope
- I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to… Affect
- Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. Better
- Conviction is the conscience of the mind. Belief
- The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. Alone
- I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and… All
- It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Became
- For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Attempts
- In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of… Art
- We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to… All
- It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. Astonishingly
- So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one… Bible
- One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. Anything Else
- For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the… House