Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
"Maria Edgeworth" was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Maria Edgeworth on Wikipedia.Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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