Charlotte Lennox famous quotes

03-16-2025

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

#Action #Satirist
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Hate #Common #Persons
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Heart #Logic
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Justice #Easy
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Truth #Lying #Deceived
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Motivation #Examination #Bears
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Design #Done #Planning
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Sometimes #Sincerity #Taxes
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Prejudice #Truth Is #Weak
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 Lennox

#Vanity #Generosity #Giving
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Forgiveness #Revenge #Enemy
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Hero #Age
The law has no power over heroes.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Hero #Power #Law
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Innocence #Guilty #Innocent
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Inspirational #Men #Silence
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Prayer #Men #Good Man
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

#Years #May #Infamous
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Envy #Virtue #Envious
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Fiction #Literature #Truth Is
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Important #Fiction #Corruption

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