Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

- Margaret Cavendish

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded wha…

- Margaret Cavendish

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

- Margaret Cavendish

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

- Margaret Cavendish

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought r…

- Margaret Cavendish

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

- Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

- Margaret Cavendish

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

- Margaret Cavendish

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of wome…

- Margaret Cavendish