Gardiner Quotes & Sayings

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film.
"Alex Gardiner," Alex said.
"Your real name?"
"I just told you."
"You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider."
"Why ask if you think you know? — Anthony Horowitz

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. — Stephen Gardiner

Everything is clear to me - outline, details, future, emotion. Not like the world, where everything is muddy and messed, and nothing ever works out the way you mean it to - no matter how skilful or how honourable you are, no matter how vile your enemy. When — Kelly Gardiner

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

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

In their arrogance lies my strength. One — Kelly Gardiner

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ... — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. — Stephen Gardiner

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape — John Eliot Gardiner

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near. — Mary Gardiner Brainard

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. — Stephen Gardiner

If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ? — Gardiner Spring

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be. — John Gardiner

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. — Stephen Gardiner

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion ... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. — Julia Gardiner Tyler

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. — Gardiner Spring

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. — Stephen Gardiner

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. — Stephen Gardiner

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. — Stephen Gardiner

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. — Stephen Gardiner

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings. — Stephen Gardiner

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. — Marguerite Gardiner

Grand a pop for the vampires who survived their first does. — Lina Gardiner

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity. — Gardiner Spring

Was wanting of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs. Gardiner, — Jane Austen

Suzanne, your rabbit's fine. Marcus will probably feed him later," Emily countered, and gave the leash a sharp tug. "It baffles me how a werewolf can keep a rabbit, of all creatures, as a pet, but you've always made it quite clear how important he is to you and we'd never dare neglect him and risk your wrath. We're already late and we can't afford to lose anymore time, besides, you did check on him before you went to bed. — Catherine Gardiner

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none
but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard. — William Lawson

My father used to say, 'Never let your guard down, never turn your back.' Never — Kelly Gardiner

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. — Marguerite Gardiner

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life.
- Jane Gardiner — Madeleine L'Engle

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? — Marguerite Gardiner

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

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. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the whispers and shrugged off the notoriety, the half-hidden glances and smirks. I — Kelly Gardiner

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game — Alfred George Gardiner

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. — Stephen Gardiner

There's so much need in the world. It turns my heart to granite. They are beggars out there, every one of them - from the crippled soldier crying on the corner to the street sellers and crooks and landlords. The bewigged crowd is no different. Better dressed, but desperate nevertheless. Especially at the palace. It's pathetic, really. I — Kelly Gardiner

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory ... — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. — Stephen Gardiner

It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled. — Gardiner Spring

At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy. — Gardiner Spring

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. — Stephen Gardiner

Monteverdi gives us the full gamut of human pssions in music, the first composer to do so; Beethoven tells us what a terrible struggle it is to transcend human frailties and to aspire to the Godhead; and Mozart shows the kind of music we might hope to hear in heaven. But it is Bach, making music in the Castle of Heaven, who gives us the voice of God - in human form. — John Eliot Gardiner

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. — Stephen Gardiner

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. — Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. — Stephen Gardiner

Haste is always ungraceful. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish. — Stephen Gardiner

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. — Marguerite Gardiner

The truth of an orchestra is heard when they try to find their common notes before the show. All those strings and tubes and odd plunking things straining in different directions; an orchestra is merely a mob of single-minded maniacs who every so often condescend to work together, and then, mostly, they soar - they ascend - they give us wings.

Then they finish and bow and grumble and stomp off to their grotty little hovels muttering to themselves. Honestly, music is a miracle. You have no idea. — Kelly Gardiner

The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey. — Gardiner Spring

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

In the earlier Passion it was John's special eyewitness account that gave the work its authenticity and edge, while the irregular placement of arias and chorales reinforced this suspense. With Matthew's version comes a larger cast and the added pathos of Jesus presented as 'a man of sorrows'. It would be hard to better it as an essentially human drama - one involving immense struggle and challenge, betrayal and forgiveness, love and sacrifice, compassion and pity - the raw material with which most people can instantly identify. — John Eliot Gardiner

Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music. — John Eliot Gardiner

When the First Sea Lord, Admiral Leach, told the Prime Minister and her cabinet colleagues that it would take three weeks to sail the Task Force to the Falklands, he was met with the incredulous response 'surely you mean three days? — Ian R. Gardiner

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars. — Mary Gardiner Brainard

Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. — Marguerite Gardiner

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. — Stephen Gardiner

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 thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven? — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

She is holding both hands over her stomach and smiling. It is a primal smile, a primordial smile, a smile of animal contentment - a smile like the smile of a dog with a ball, or a purring cat. It is a smile utterly impossible not to smile back at, and McFadden does. — Scott Gardiner

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

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. — Marguerite Gardiner

Yet most women I know - no matter how clever, no matter how strong - are dragged down by husbands or fathers or titles or too many petticoats, or priests clutching at their hems, telling them, 'No, you cannot do that, you cannot be that.' I never listened. That's rare. Even a woman like the Comtesse pretends to pay attention to the sermons and the instructions, but then does whatever she wishes. I — Kelly Gardiner

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. — Marguerite Gardiner

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long. — Marguerite Gardiner

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

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington