Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Quotes

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There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Gertrude loved with all the delusion of romance, and, like many a young enthusiast, had mistaken her imagination for her mind...

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
… the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
It was seldom an idea found entrance into his head, and when once there it was no easy matter to dislodge it; it became not the mere furniture of the head, to be turned or changed at will, but seemed actually to become a part of the head itself, which it required a sort of mental scalping or trepanning to remove.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Gertrude could scarcely restrain a smile at hearing Lord Rossville quote himself as a pattern to be followed instead of a rock to be shunned; but such is the blindness of human nature; we are all but too apt to hold ourselves up as guides when we ought to be satisfied to serve as beacons.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
The sickness of hope deferred crept like poison through her veins.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
What will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them...

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier