58 Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

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

And though my father was not a peer of the realm, yet there were few peers who had much greater estates or lived more noble therewith.

And though my brother Sir Thomas Lucas died not immediately of his wounds, yet a wound he received on his head in Ireland shortened his life.

For it was not amorous love. I never was infected therewith. It is a disease, or a passion, or both - I only know by relation, no by experience.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.