The Sylph Quotes

“Love is industrious in tormenting itself.”
― Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, The Sylph

“So away goes reflection; and we are whirled away in the stream of dissipation, with the rest of the world. This seems a very sufficient reason for every thing we do, The rest of the world does so: that's quite enough.”
― Georgiana Cavendish, The Sylph

“Sure never two people were more strongly contrasted than the Baron and the Colonel. The one seems the kindly sun, cherishing the tender herbage of the field; the other, the blasting mildew, breathing its pestiferous venom over every beautiful plant and flower. However, do you, my love, only regard them as virtue and vice personified; look on them as patterns and examples; view them in no other light; for in no other can they be of any advantage to you.”
― Georgiana Cavendish, The Sylph: Volume I and II

“My native country! exclaimed he, What is my native country, what the whole globe itself, to that spot which contains all?”
― Georgiana Cavendish, The Sylph: Volume I and II