Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

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. (Margaret Cavendish)

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. (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 what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. (Margaret Cavendish)

And though my brother Sir Thomas Lucas died not immediately of his wounds, yet a wound he received on his head in Ireland shortened his life. (Margaret Cavendish)

And though my father was not a peer of the realm, yet there were few peers who had much greater estates or lived more noble therewith. (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)

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. (Margaret Cavendish)

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. (Margaret Cavendish)

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. (Margaret Cavendish)

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)