Quotes from Charlotte Lennox

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The law has no power over heroes.

Two or three Months rolled away, after this Accident, without offering any new Adventure to our fair Visionary; when her Imagination, always prepossessed with the same fantastic Ideas, made her stumble upon another Mistake, equally absurd and ridiculous.

But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.

It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.

For if I knew how to please you, I would never, if I could help it, offend.

The Empire of Love, said she, like the Empire of Honour is govern'd by Laws of its own, which have no Dependence upon, or Relation to any other.

That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

When they were gone, she found her time hung heavy upon her hands...

Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...

Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.

Love requires a more unlimited Obedience from its Slaves, than any other Monarch can expect from his Subjects; an Obedience which is circumscrib'd by no Laws whatever, and dependent upon nothing but itself.

There ought to be a great Distance between Raillery and Satire, so that one may never be mistaken for the other: Raillery ought indeed to surprise, and sensibly touch, those to whom it is directed; but I would not have the Wounds it makes, either deep or lasting: Let those who feel it, be hurt like Persons, who, gathering Roses, are pricked by the Thorns, and find a sweet smell to make amends.

I would have raillery raise the fancy, and quicken the imagination: the fire of its wit should only enable us to trace its original, and shine as the stars do, but not burn. Yet, after all, I cannot greatly approve of raillery, or cease to think it dangerous; and, to pursue my comparisons, said she, with an enchanting smile, persons who possess the true talent of raillery are like comets; they are seldom seen, and are at once admired and feared.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.