Margaret Cavendish Quotes

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

~ Margaret Cavendish

...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

~ Margaret Cavendish

I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.

~ Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

~ 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 rude or wanton.

~ Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

~ Margaret Cavendish

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

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

~ Margaret Cavendish