58 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

If any should like the World I have made, and be willing to be my Subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such, I mean in their Minds, Fancies or Imaginations; but if they cannot endure to be Subjects, they may create Worlds of their own, and Govern themselves as they please.

I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

...though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain,Noble Ladies, Your Humble Servant, M. Newcastle.

Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.