Best 18 quotes of Charlotte Lennox on MyQuotes

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

The law has no power over heroes.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

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

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.