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Sydney, Lady Morgan
8 quotes
“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1806 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wild Irish Girl (1806), ep. 5
“Race and temperament go for so much in influencing opinion!”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (August 1818); Passages from My Autobiography (1859), p. 17
“Vulgarity is setting store by "the things which are seen.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry; Passages from My Autobiography (1859), p. 108
“Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected; from the cromlech of the Druids to those toyshops of royal bad taste.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry; Passages from My Autobiography (1859), p. 190
“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures (or, at least, who are thought so) mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind, propitious offerings to that deity, whose works are all light, and lustre, and harmony, and loveliness.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Book of the Boudoir (1829), vol. 2, p. 1
“The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambles, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Book of the Boudoir (1829), vol. 2, p. 39
“The influence of woman was, is, and ever will be exercised, directly or indirectly, in good or in evil! It is a part of the scheme of nature. Give her then the lights she is capable of receiving; educate her (whatever her station) for taking her part in society. Her ignorance has often made her interference fatal: her knowledge, never.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Princess; or, The Béguine (1835), ch. 20
“Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon.”
Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lady Combermere (11 April 1859); Memoirs, Autobiographies, Diaries and Correspondence (1862), vol. 2, p. 546