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
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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.