Charlotte Lennox quotes
-
“When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1752). “The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella: In Two Volumes”, p.163
-
“Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.136
-
“There is no logic like the logic of the heart.”
-- Charlotte Lennox -
“It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1761). “Henrietta”, p.102
-
-
“We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1761). “Henrietta”, p.19
-
“The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.190
-
“Whatever is done by design is always overdone.”
-- Charlotte Lennox -
“Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.”
-- Charlotte Lennox -
-
“Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1805). “Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings”, p.157
-
“What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.112
-
“In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Mrs.charlotte lennox. (1762). “Sophia”, p.139
-
“A hero in one age will be a hero in another.”
-- Charlotte Lennox -
-
“The law has no power over heroes.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com
-
“When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97
-
“The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com
-
“The life of a good man is a continual prayer.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (2008). “Euphemia”, p.477, Broadview Press
-
-
“Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.”
-- Charlotte Lennox -
“No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.128
-
“Truth is not always injured by fiction.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1820). “The female Quixote; or, The adventures of Arabella”, p.261
-
“It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.”
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (2009). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.348, ReadHowYouWant.com
-
You may also like:
-
Ann Radcliffe
Author -
Aphra Behn
Dramatist -
Charlotte Dacre
Author -
Dale Spender
Writer -
Delarivier Manley
Author -
Eliza Haywood
Writer -
Elizabeth Carter
Poet -
Elizabeth Inchbald
Novelist -
Elizabeth Montagu
Writer -
Fanny Burney
Novelist -
Hannah More
Writer -
Henry Fielding
Novelist -
Henry Mackenzie
Novelist -
Mary Wortley Montagu
Writer -
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
Writer -
Samuel Richardson
Writer -
Sarah Fielding
Author -
Tobias Smollett
Poet