117 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

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

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

Confidence is the best proof of love.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.