Quotes By Maria Edgeworth

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

How success changes the opinion of men!

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.