Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
people helping praise
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
strong thinking world
The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.
strong people weakness
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
may moments morrow
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
generations graves grows
we all grow on somebody's grave ...
elements torment opposition
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
education boots university
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
may mythology wells
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
god philosophy things-change
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
art firsts thirds
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
spiritual character men
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
littles today lasts
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
memorable creeds
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.