Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworthwas a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth1 January 1767
CountryIreland
Maria Edgeworth quotes about
It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
[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 ...
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Justice satisfies everybody.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.