Margaret Cavendish Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Margaret Cavendish's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Writer Margaret Cavendish's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 4 quotes on this page collected since 1623! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
All quotes by Margaret Cavendish: Literature Mothers Wit more...
  • Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

  • Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

    Wise   Nature   Hate  
  • Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

  • And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

  • For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

  • Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

    Children   Giving   Noble  
  • But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.52, Broadview Press
  • The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

    Owl   Bats   Truth Is  
  • My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.

    Brother   Father   War  
  • For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.51, Broadview Press
  • For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

  • If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

    Matter   Bees   Agree  
    Margaret Cavendish, “The Weight Of Atomes.”
  • Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

    Pain   Oblivion   Mankind  
  • who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

    Poet  
  • Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

  • 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.

    Mind   Body   Action  
  • In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

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

    Years   Idiot   Wit  
    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press
  • One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

    Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.60, Broadview Press
  • A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

    Men   Rude   Devil  
  • Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

    Graves   Wit   Tombs  
    'Plays' (1662) p. 525
  • I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

    Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.146, Broadview Press
  • As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

    Mother   Pride   Gay  
    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press
  • 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 rude or wanton.

    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press
  • And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

    Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press
  • Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

  • As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

    Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press
  • 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 what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

    Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press
  • 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 women.

    Men   Literature   Firsts  
  • Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

    Stars   Memories   Moon  
Page of
We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 4 quotes from the Writer Margaret Cavendish, starting from 1623! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!
Margaret Cavendish quotes about: Literature Mothers Wit