11 Quotes by Amelia B. Edwards

Did you ever feel a creeping,That awoke you from your sleeping,That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair;While a horrid stealthy crawlingPrevented you from calling,And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there?

The world,” he said, “grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency."The Phantom Coach

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The camel has his virtues – so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man’s achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.