Quotes by Hannah More

“evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not...”

“mischief, arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.”

“The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with eloquence. A few centuries l...”

“I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, a...”

“A useful education served women best, More thought. To learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman. Yet, when beauty is all t...”

“the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements....”

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the ...”

“One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of t...”

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”

“Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.”

“When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being ...”

“Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not, as I pointed to her, forbear exclaiming in the words of Sir John's favorite poet,There doth beau...”

“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better tha...”

“Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that re...”

“I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have n...”

“Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and app...”

“I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More”

“It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”

“If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.”