17 Quotes by Marguerite Gardiner

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

The Dauphine is much changed since I last saw her, and the care and sorrow of her childhood have left their traces on her countenance.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.