Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington - Society Quotes

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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

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

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington