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 BlessingtonTalent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSociety seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington