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
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.
The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
there is no reasoning with imagination.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
Justice satisfies everybody.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...
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.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.