Maria Edgeworth Quotes

"Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Business, Pleasure)

"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Fortune)

"How success changes the opinion of men!"
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Success, Opinion)

"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Fancy)

"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Heart, Irish)

"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Religion, Morality, People, Property, Talk)

"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Forget)

"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Class, Hurt)

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Age, 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."
- Maria Edgeworth
(Related: Law, Right)