Top 32 Mrs Gardiner Quotes
#1. Was wanting of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs. Gardiner,
Jane Austen
#2. In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
Marguerite Gardiner
#6. Was it hard to watch people go?
No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder.
Meg Gardiner
#7. The children of God do sin; they sin knowingly; they sin voluntarily; but they do not sin habitually.
Gardiner Spring
#9. Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Gardiner
#10. The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
#11. That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#13. Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye.
John Reynolds Gardiner
#15. [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.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#20. The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner
#21. How does one measure bravery? I suppose one starts by looking at the difference between what you are naturally inclined to do, and what your sense of duty tells you you should do. Courage is what it costs you to cover the deficiency.
Ian Gardiner
#22. The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
#24. The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
Stephen Gardiner
#26. 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.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#27. The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.
Gardiner Spring
#28. I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the whispers and shrugged off the notoriety, the half-hidden glances and smirks. I
Kelly Gardiner
#29. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Stephen Gardiner
#31. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.
John Eliot Gardiner
