Top 76 Countess Of Blessington Quotes
#1. Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
#2. A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
#3. Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
#4. Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
#5. Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
#6. Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.
#7. 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.
#8. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
#9. Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ...
#10. Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
#11. Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
#12. Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
#13. Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.
#14. Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
#15. 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.
#16. Calumny is the offspring of Envy.
#17. Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory ...
#18. Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
#19. The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
#20. He who fears not, is to be feared.
#21. Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
#22. Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
#23. The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
#24. Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
#25. Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
#26. To appear rich, we become poor.
#27. Superstition is but the fear of belief.
#28. Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
#29. Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
#30. There is no cosmetic like happiness
#31. The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
#32. Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.
#33. Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ...
#34. Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors.
#35. Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
#36. Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
#37. Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
#38. People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
#39. Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.
#40. Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
#41. 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.
#42. There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
#43. Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?
#44. When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
#45. [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.
#46. 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.
#47. Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
#48. Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
#49. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
#50. Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
#51. Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
#52. He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.
#53. A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
#54. Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
#55. 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.
#56. Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
#57. A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
#58. Haste is always ungraceful.
#59. One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
#60. We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
#61. A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
#62. Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
#63. The future: A consolation for those who have no other.
#64. 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.
#65. It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
#66. Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
#67. There is no magician like love.
#68. A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.
#69. A German writer observes: The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.
#70. 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.
#71. People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
#72. To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
#73. I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
#74. The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
#75. We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
#76. Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
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