Sydney, Lady Morgan Quotes

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

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.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.