Maria Edgeworth - Man Quotes

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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Maria Edgeworth
This startling assertion could not bring his majesty's veracity into question; for according to his definition, and to the received opinion at his court, 'No man could be called drunk, so long as he could lie upon the ground without holding onto it.'

Maria Edgeworth
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

Maria Edgeworth
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.

Maria Edgeworth
Every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Maria Edgeworth
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 afterward. They will be dissipated, lost in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Maria Edgeworth
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

Maria Edgeworth
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

Maria Edgeworth
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Maria Edgeworth
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