What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

— Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

— Maria Edgeworth

How success changes the opinion of men!

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When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

— Maria Edgeworth

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow’r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

— Maria Edgeworth

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

— Maria Edgeworth

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.

— Maria Edgeworth

Nature’s hasty conscience.

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There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

— Maria Edgeworth

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

— Maria Edgeworth

According to the Asiatics, Cupid’s bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

— Maria Edgeworth

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

— Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

— Maria Edgeworth

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

— Maria Edgeworth

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

— Maria Edgeworth

Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

— Maria Edgeworth

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man’s mind, under the general head of liberty.

— Maria Edgeworth

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

— Maria Edgeworth

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

— Maria Edgeworth

Justice satisfies everybody.

— Maria Edgeworth

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

— Maria Edgeworth
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