Hannah More
Hannah More
Hannah Morewas an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1745
Hannah More quotes about
thinking talking listening
when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
mistake parent genius
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
time might expenses
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
book people want
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
men class discrimination
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
anger character giving
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.
taken sin guilty
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...
pain addiction strange
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
wisdom eye blessing
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
home sea parent
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's force: A stream diverted from its parent source; A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea; A moment, parted from eternity; A pilgrim panting for the rest to come; An exile, anxious for his native home.
retirement believe heart
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.
christian eye people
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.
royalty virtue manners
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
imagination criticism hints
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...