Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington - People Quotes

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Bores. People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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
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
Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

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
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

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
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
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