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
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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.
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
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.
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.