Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
June 7, 1831 – April, 15, 1892.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her most successful literary works included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the Egyptian travelogue A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Amelia B. Edwards
Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia B. Edwards

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia B. Edwards
- World
- Valuation
- Apt
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia B. Edwards
Every reformation ruins somebody.

Amelia B. Edwards
- Ruins
- Reformation
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Amelia B. Edwards
- Literature
- Fruit
- Leisure
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia B. Edwards
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Amelia B. Edwards
- Virtues
- Surface
- Camel

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards
- Egypt
- Immense
- Facade
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

Amelia B. Edwards
- Tree
- Root
- Eden