Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is an indisputable fact that only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is better to die young than to outlive all one loved, and all that rendered one lovable.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington