People Quotes by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

9 People quotes by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Marguerite Gardiner’s nine reflections on people provide a succinct glimpse into 19th‑century social circles, delivering a quick taste of her aristocratic observations.

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Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

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Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

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Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

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People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

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The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

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Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and…

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People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of…

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Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty…

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A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

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Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

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There is no cosmetic like happiness

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Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

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There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

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Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

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Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

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Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

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Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

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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…

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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

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