Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonModern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington