Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

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.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

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.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

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.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

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.