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