Maria Edgeworth
How success changes the opinion of men!Collection: Success
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.Collection: Age
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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.Collection: Inspirational
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.Collection: Love
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.Collection: Use
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!Collection: Pain
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.Collection: Hope
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.Collection: Thinking
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.Collection: Belief
Confidence is the best proof of love.Collection: Proof Of Love
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.Collection: Giving
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.Collection: People
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.Collection: Procrastination
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.Collection: Friendship
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.Collection: Wise
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.Collection: Passion
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.Collection: Confidence
wit is often its own worst enemy.Collection: Worst Enemy
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.Collection: Injustice
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.Collection: May
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.Collection: Courage
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.Collection: Health
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.Collection: Class
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.Collection: Light
Justice satisfies everybody.Collection: Justice
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.Collection: Heart
every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Journey
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.Collection: Children
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.Collection: Giving
Nature's hasty conscience.Collection: Shame
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.Collection: Two
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!Collection: Home
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.Collection: Bows
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.Collection: Hospitality
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.Collection: Country
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?Collection: Beer
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.Collection: Let Me
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.Collection: Children
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.Collection: Mother
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.Collection: Lovers