Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Amelia B. Edwards

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Amelia B. Edwards.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She gained the nickname "Godmother of Egyptology" for her contribution.

English - Novelist | June 7, 1831 - April 15, 1892

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It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Amelia B. Edwards

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Amelia B. Edwards

Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

Amelia B. Edwards

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia B. Edwards

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia B. Edwards

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Amelia B. Edwards

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia B. Edwards

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia B. Edwards

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

Amelia B. Edwards

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Amelia B. Edwards

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards