Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

- Sydney, Lady Morgan

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

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 Dru…

- Sydney, Lady Morgan

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 i…

- Sydney, Lady Morgan

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

- 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.

- Sydney, Lady Morgan

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

- Sydney, Lady Morgan

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…

- Sydney, Lady Morgan