Quotes from Maria Edgeworth

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral before I die.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

He was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.

If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.