117 Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.