Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Inchbald

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Elizabeth Inchbald.

Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Elizabeth Inchbald was an English novelist, actress and dramatist. She wrote two novels that have remained prominent to this day. She successfully translated and adapted several plays from German and French.

English - Novelist | October 15, 1753 - August 1, 1821

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I have not laughed since I married.

Elizabeth Inchbald

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

Elizabeth Inchbald

A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.

Elizabeth Inchbald

Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.

Elizabeth Inchbald

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

Elizabeth Inchbald

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

Elizabeth Inchbald