60 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one’s own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, – too much money, and too few ideas.

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age...

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance – show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

But the mind travels far – and mysteriously – in sleep.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow – and trust – the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.