Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

- Charlotte Lennox

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

- Charlotte Lennox

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

- Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

- Charlotte Lennox

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

- Charlotte Lennox

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

- Charlotte Lennox

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

- Charlotte Lennox

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

- Charlotte Lennox

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

- Charlotte Lennox