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
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.
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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.
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
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?
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.