Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

… Lady Janet … never has any opinion but mine: this is what I call the only solid foundation to build matrimonial happiness upon; and so I have made up my mind to marry.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Sure there’s different roads from this to Dungarvan—some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn’t it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this?—and sure isn’t it twice worse to try to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

… with a good fortune, a brilliant position, and a weak, indulgent husband, what more could she desire?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington