Top 21 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.