Charlotte Lennox Quotes & Sayings

#1. We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

#2. Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

#3. No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

#4. It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

#5. A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

#6. Truth is not always injured by fiction.

#7. When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

#8. Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

#9. The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

#10. In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

#11. There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

#12. What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

#13. When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

#14. The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

#15. Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

#16. Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

#17. The law has no power over heroes.

#18. It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

#19. Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

#20. The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Charlotte Lennox Quotes