162 Quotes by Hannah More

He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little....

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.