I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst peo…

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid…

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat t…

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of …

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier