(13 quotes found)
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”
Maria Edgeworth
“How success changes the opinion of men!”
“The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law”
“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”
“Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property”
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
“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”
“And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.”