Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits. Maria Edgeworth More Quotes by Maria Edgeworth More Quotes From Maria Edgeworth Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. Maria Edgeworth vanitybeautyheaven According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. Maria Edgeworth bowsbeessometimes Confidence is the best proof of love. Maria Edgeworth proof-of-loveproof It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth ageheartyears Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive. Maria Edgeworth medicinerealchildren There is no moment like the present. 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. Maria Edgeworth have-a-great-dayhopemen If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. Maria Edgeworth irishourneverheart The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. Maria Edgeworth rightmakedonelaw
