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Famous Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
“Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.”
“Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.”
“Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.”
“We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.”
“Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.”
“The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.”
“Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.”
“Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.”
“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers”
“It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.”
“A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!”
“Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.”
“Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.”
“Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.”
“There is no magician like love.”
“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”
“Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.”
“The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.”
“Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.”