Maria Edgeworth Quotations

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

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.

Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.

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

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.