117 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

Justice satisfies everybody.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

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.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.