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
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
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.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
Nature's hasty conscience.