The Sylph Quotes

“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

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

“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

“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

“The name of love has awakened a thousand, thousand pangs, which sorrow had hushed to rest; at least, I kept them to myself”
― Georgiana Cavendish, The Sylph