Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes

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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
People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

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
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
Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

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!

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
The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

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

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

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
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

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
There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Those who are formed to win general admiration, are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lowly for crimes.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington