1.
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
2.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
3.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
4.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
5.
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
6.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
7.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
8.
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
9.
There is no cosmetic like happiness
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
10.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
11.
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
12.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
13.
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
14.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
15.
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
16.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
17.
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
18.
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
19.
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
20.
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
21.
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.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
22.
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
23.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
24.
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
25.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
26.
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
27.
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
28.
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
29.
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
30.
Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
31.
Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
32.
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
33.
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
34.
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
35.
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
36.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
37.
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
38.
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
39.
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
40.
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
41.
A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
42.
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
43.
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
44.
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
45.
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
46.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
47.
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
48.
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
49.
It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
50.
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
