Top 45 Quotes by Mary Astell

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.