Quotes by Hannah More

“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”

“The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal...”

“In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?”

“Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.”

“Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”

“Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.”

“The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!”

“A crown! what is it?”

“It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care! Daniel, Pt. VI”

“... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.”

“To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!”

“Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs.”

“In men this blunder still you find,—All think their little set mankind.”

“Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.”

“That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.”