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.

Let me not, even in my own mind, commit the injustice of taking a speck for the whole.

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.

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