Quotes from Mary Augusta Ward

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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.

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

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

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

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.