Maria Edgeworth Men Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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 afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

How success changes the opinion of men!

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.

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.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

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

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.