Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
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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
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
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
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
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached; but great men, to retain their altitude, must only be viewed from a distance.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrame.
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
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is not until we have lost those we loved that we feel all their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
