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Lady Hester Stanhope Quotes

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Lady Hester Stanhope
Essence, Identity, Vain
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.14

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

Lady Hester Stanhope
Nature, Stars, Moon

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

Lady Hester Stanhope
Education, Lying, Long

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Stanhope
Fool, Conversation, Packs
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Lady Hester Stanhope
Philosophical, Discovery, Sublime
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Lady Hester Stanhope
Taken, Men, Thinking
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212

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