Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
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We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
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To appear rich, we become poor.
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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.
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
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A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
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Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
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To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
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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.
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... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
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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.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
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People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
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Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
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We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .
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Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
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He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.
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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.
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Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
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Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
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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.
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Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
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He who fears not, is to be feared.
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There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
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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.
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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
- Born: September 1, 1789
- Died: June 4, 1849
- Occupation: Novelist
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