Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Sydney, Lady Morgan

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Sydney, Lady Morgan, was an Irish novelist, best known for The Wild Irish Girl (1806), a romantic, and some critics suggest, "proto-feminist", novel with political and patriotic overtones. Her work, including continental travelogues, sparked controversy and faced censorship. She counted Percy Bysshe Shelley and by Lord Byron among her defenders.

Irish - Novelist | 1776 - April 14, 1859

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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

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Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

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Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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.

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