Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonMemory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonFlattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonReason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington