Maria Edgeworth Quotes.

1. "If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

2. "If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

3. "So quickly in youth do different and opposite trains of ideas and emotions succeed to each other; and so easy it is, by a timely exercise of reason and self-command, to prevent a fancy from becoming a passion."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

4. "If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves"
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

5. "... Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

6. "Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

7. "Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport."
- Quote by Maria Edgeworth

8. "Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves."
- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee

9. "but don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do."
- Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee

10. "When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?"
- Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent