The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open. Maria Edgeworth More Quotes by Maria Edgeworth More Quotes From Maria Edgeworth The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. Maria Edgeworth whiskey drinking sometimes No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. Maria Edgeworth confidence laughter men Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! Maria Edgeworth different home people The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning. Maria Edgeworth everlasting quotations lovers Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. Maria Edgeworth occupation get-well sorry We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice. Maria Edgeworth prejudice opinion thinking a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. Maria Edgeworth morality lines two First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love. Maria Edgeworth merit first-love firsts how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others. Maria Edgeworth laughter impossible laughing [On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets. Maria Edgeworth literature suffering may We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us. Maria Edgeworth horse travel ideas Justice satisfies everybody. Maria Edgeworth justice tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. Maria Edgeworth injustice produce tyranny there is no reasoning with imagination. Maria Edgeworth reasoning imagination half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. Maria Edgeworth frustrated procrastination half I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. Maria Edgeworth apology procrastination art Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing. Maria Edgeworth sight house children 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. Maria Edgeworth daughter mother men Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole. Maria Edgeworth specks let-me whole Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. Maria Edgeworth hospitality died monument
