Age Quote by Hester Lynch Piozzi

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

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

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

[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

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

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

“Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow…And a sweet Planet it is!”

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

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

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

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

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi