Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

About Maria Edgeworth:

Maria Edgeworth was 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.
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The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and pr...

Maria Edgeworth

First and foremost, they had the curses of the country: and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of the debts, in which he was countenanced by all the best gentlemen ...

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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

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

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How success changes the opinion of men!

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Author Bio

  • NameMaria Edgeworth
  • DescriptionIrish writer
  • AliasesAuthor of Letters for literary ladies,; Practical education, Author of,
  • BornJanuary 1, 1767
  • DiedMay 22, 1849
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters