Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWhen we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPraise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington