Charlotte Lennox Quotes

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The silence of a man who loves to praise, is a censure sufficiently severe...

Charlotte Lennox

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Charlotte Lennox

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Charlotte Lennox

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Charlotte Lennox

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

Charlotte Lennox

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Charlotte Lennox

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Charlotte Lennox

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

Born: 1730

Died: January 4, 1804 (aged 74)

Bio: Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay was a Scottish author and poet.

Known for:

The Female Quixote (1752)
The life of Harriot Stuart (1751)
Euphemia (1787)

Charlotte Lennox on Wikipedia

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