Country Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind…

— Mary Augusta Ward

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

— Mary Augusta Ward

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

— Mary Augusta Ward

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what…

— Mary Augusta Ward

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in…

— Mary Augusta Ward

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

— Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

— Mary Augusta Ward

The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world…

— Mary Augusta Ward

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual…

— Mary Augusta Ward

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only…

— Mary Augusta Ward