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Mary Augusta Ward
23 quotes
“Propinquity does it"—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conviction is the Conscience of the Mind.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance—show yourself too much, and, like , they flashed away.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]y credo is very short. Its first article is art—and its second is art—and its third is art!”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he better life cannot be imposed from without—it must grow from within.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject matter, when one comes to write about it.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he delight in natural things—colours, forms, scents—when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But no man has a monopoly of conscience.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only thing which can keep journalism alive—journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment—is—again, the Stevensonian secret!—charm.”
Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source