Maria Edgeworth Quotes

In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife’s mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

Her son saw that the London mania was now stronger than ever upon her.

Those enemies to Ireland__those cruel absentees!

There need, at all events, be none of this, if people would but live upon their own estates, and kill their own mutton.

What a misfortune it is to be born a woman!… Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show us the new limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison.

Come when you’re called; And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you; And you’ll never be chid.