Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonMemory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThoughts 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 BlessingtonPrejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington