Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. June 1851 – 24. March 1920
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Famous Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”

Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”

Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere. Book ii. Chap. xii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.”

Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”

Mary Augusta Ward book Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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