Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
76 Sourced Quotes
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Love-matches are made by people who are content for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Love matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
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
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Bores. People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington