Tears fell from my eyes—yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Happiness, Beauty
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Memories, Memory
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Humor
The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Conscience
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Despair
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Misfortune
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Genius, Talent
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
Topics: Justice, Vice
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Advice
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Prejudice
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Superstition
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 and a wounded heart.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Knowledge
A woman’s head is always influenced by heart; but a man’s heart by his head.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Admiration
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
Topics: Love
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Plagiarism
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Topics: Beauty, Talent
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