Sydney, Lady Morgan 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

  Good Friend, Imagination, Mind

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1808). “The wild Irish girl: a national tale”, p.58

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• 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.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Weakness

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• 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.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Cat, People, Half

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1829). “The Book of the Boudoir”, p.43

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• 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 toy-shops of royal bad taste

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Giving, Age, Taste

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

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• 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

  Mistake, Sadness, Thinking

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• Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Vulgarity Is, Stores, Settings

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• Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Race, Opinion, Influence

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.17

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