Piozzi Quotes

#1. Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Horace Walpole

#2. Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit ...

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#3. [Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#4. Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#5. Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#6. We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#7. One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#8. Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#10. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#11. I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#12. Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is!

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#13. You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

Cornel West

#14. If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#15. It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#16. What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Naomi Wolf

#17. No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#18. Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#19. Note to self: jogging on trails with disgruntled dogs and duck hunters will make you run faster.

Krystyna Faroe

#20. I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ...

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#21. It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you.
It's not about "tit for tat," it's about "I love you, too.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#22. I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#23. Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

Gary Bauer

#24. Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.

Hester Lynch Piozzi