Hester Lynch Piozzi Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 17 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi.
Famous Quotes By Hester Lynch Piozzi
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths." — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is! — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit ... — Hester Lynch Piozzi
One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth! — Hester Lynch Piozzi
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ... — Hester Lynch Piozzi
No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart! — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Friendship is far more delicate than love. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them. — Hester Lynch Piozzi