Lansdowne Quotes

#1. Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#2. There is no heaven like mutual love.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#3. Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#4. Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#5. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

#6. So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never been before at 4.30 in the morning. And you know the weirdest thing of all? It all seemed so perfectly natural.

Colin Irwin

#7. The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#8. We have as much time as we need.

Melody Beattie

#9. I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

Brian McKnight

#10. The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#11. Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#12. Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#13. Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#14. Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

Alessandro Baricco

#15. Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#16. Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#17. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#18. Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#19. Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

Lew Wallace

#20. O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne