Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.