In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
— Charlotte Lennox
The most craziest Charlotte Lennox quotes that are easy to memorize and remember
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
The law has no power over heroes.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
