When 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 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 BlessingtonHere Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonFriends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington