Mary Augusta Ward famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Men #Stories #Found
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Mind #Belief #Conviction
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Christian #Teacher #Joy
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Spiritual #Character #Men
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Marriage #Partnership
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Marriage #Writing #Fiction
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Trust #Art #Choices
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Real #Women #Government
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Average #World
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Growing Up #Biblical #Years
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#May #Mythology #Wells
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Daughter #Mother #Father
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Teacher #Clever #Children
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Interesting #Very Interesting
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Mother #Daughter #Children
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Memorable #Creeds
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Book #Writing #Exercise
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Years #Training #Intellectual
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Girl #Summer #Book
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Girl #Country #School
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Men #Monopoly #Conscience
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Sleep #Mind
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Girl #Taken #School
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Littles #Today #Lasts
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#God #Philosophy #Things Change

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