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
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
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.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
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.
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.