People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSome people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonBores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington