The Female Quixote Quotes

“For Heaven's sake, Cousin, resumed Arabella, laughing, how have you spent your Time; and to what Studies have you devoted all your Hours, that you could find none to spare for the Perusal of Books from which all useful Knowlege may be drawn; which give us the most shining Examples of Generosity, Courage, Virtue, and Love; which regulate our Actions, form our Manners, and inspire us with a noble Desire of emulating those great, heroic, and virtuous Actions, which made those Persons so glorious in their Age, and so worthy Imitation in ours?”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella

“Two or three Months rolled away, after this Accident, without offering any new Adventure to our fair Visionary; when her Imagination, always prepossessed with the same fantastic Ideas, made her stumble upon another Mistake, equally absurd and ridiculous.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella

“But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella

“That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“The Empire of Love, said she, like the Empire of Honour is govern'd by Laws of its own, which have no Dependence upon, or Relation to any other.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“For if I knew how to please you, I would never, if I could help it, offend.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“When they were gone, she found her time hung heavy upon her hands...”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote

“There ought to be a great Distance between Raillery and Satire, so that one may never be mistaken for the other: Raillery ought indeed to surprise, and sensibly touch, those to whom it is directed; but I would not have the Wounds it makes, either deep or lasting: Let those who feel it, be hurt like Persons, who, gathering Roses, are pricked by the Thorns, and find a sweet smell to make amends.”
― Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote