117 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

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

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.

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.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.