Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

[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.

Literature

May

Suffering

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

Party

Way

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

Country

Men

Pleasure

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points – an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Lines

Morality

Two

Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended…The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day’s health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

Children

Medicine

Real

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Facts

Persons

Speech

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Curious

Wit

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

Gentleman

Journey

Wings

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.

Book

Reading

Thinking

Come when you’re called; And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you; And you’ll never be chid.

Doors

Obedience

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Action

Age

Amusement

Apology

Appreciation

Arguing

Art

Book

Character

Children

Class

Confidence

Conscience

Contentment

Country

Curious

Dangerous

Died

Different

Doors

Dresses

Drinking

Everlasting

Expectations

Eye

Facts

Fame

First Love

Firsts

Flattery

Forgive And Forget

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Fortune

Frustrated

Gentleman

Get Well

Giving

Gratitude

Half

Hasty

Have A Great Day

Health

Heart

Home

Hope

Horizon

Horse

Hospitality

House

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Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

[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.

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points – an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

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.

Come when you’re called; And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you; And you’ll never be chid.

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