Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineauwas a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 June 1802
Harriet Martineau quotes about
punishment rewards consideration
I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.
traveler seeing spectacles
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
numbers matter principles
There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...
time ideas soul
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
modesty fidelity retiring
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
faculty theory universe
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
monotonous-life stills monotonous
I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible ...
dream song echoes
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
queens america evil
A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.