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Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
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“In short, the world owns that we are the best-looking family in England and we are pretty well disposed to agree.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to her brother, Richard Brinsley "Brinny" Sheridan (30 Jul 1828)
“You see Georgy’s the beauty and Carry’s the wit, and I ought to be the good one, but then I am such a liar.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Benjamin Disraeli at a dinner, comparing herself to her younger sisters Caroline Norton and Georgiana Seymour, as quoted in a letter to his sister, Sarah (14 Feb 1833)
“I am what Doctor Johnson would call a "compendious epitome" of all the virtues—in one volume very neatly bound, and very rare—there being but one copy extant.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to Benjamin Disraeli, jokingly addressed to his father, Isaac D'Israeli (Mar 1833)
“I am persuaded one ought not to set one's heart earnestly on any one pursuit in this world, if one wishes to preserve any of the energy of youth beyond its first years.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to Benjamin Disraeli (Apr 1833)
“Rumor has reached me that my private and confidential communications to you have been publicly bandied about, after a banquet at your house, and commented on by astute Diplomats and persons of that dangerous description. I therefore write this in illegible character, trusting that not even you will be able to read it, to ask you to dine at my inhospitable board on Wednesday the 21st, when I shall take care that there shall be nothing to eat. Fondly hoping that you will not be able to come, I remain, with best execrations, your enemy for life,”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the writer Abraham Hayward (12 Jun 1848)
“Surely it is hardly worthwhile to take up a pursuit merely to please other people.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to her son, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1849)
“What a spirit of contradiction possesses one's kind friends! I, who have never done anything, am supposed to be capable of doing much; it is a great lesson, which I shall lay to heart. I will never give the measure of my shallowness; I will go on laboring in my vocation; I will "do nothing" more energetically than ever.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the rumors that she was the real author of her son's first book, in a letter to Abraham Howard (9 Jul 1857)
“Do, Car, open your eyes (and shut your mouth) and see that this is not our old world when we were all young, handsome women, much observed and talked of, and that you are no longer an ideal of Vanity Fair.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to her sister Caroline Norton (29 Jun 1864)
“That last day at Clandeboye was full of sweet and bitter thoughts to me. I walked round the lake, and took leave of all the old (and new!) places. ... I had a poignant thought of regret in thinking I should see them no more (at least with my earthly eyes), for I have occasional happy fancies of some sort of spiritual presence with those we love that may be permitted after death, and, if so, how continually I shall be with my darling—alone, or in company—in your walks, or by your fireside—the fervor of my love, my blessing, my whole soul, will surely encompass you!”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter meant to be read by her son after her death, written when she was aware she had terminal cancer (1 Jan 1867)
“I'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we sat side by side, That bright May morning long ago When first you were my bride. The corn was springing fresh and green, The lark sang loud and high, The red was on your lip, Mary, The love-light in your eye.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Irish Emigrant" (c. 1860), line 1; p. 105.
“I'm very lonely now, Mary,— The poor make no new friends;— But, oh! they love the better still The few our Father sends”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm bidding you a long farewell, My Mary—kind and true! But I'll not forget you, darling, In the land I'm going to. They say there's bread and work for all, And the sun shines always there; But I'll not forget old Ireland, Were it fifty times as fair.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, Bay of Dublin! How my heart you're troublin', Your beauty haunts me like a fever dream; Like frozen fountains, that the sun sets bubblin' My heart's blood warms when I but hear your name.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou mourner for departed dreams! On earth there is no rest When grief hath troubled the pure streams Of memory in thy breast!”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rest now—and weep—thou praised of Earth! And own, when all is done, A world's false worship is not worth The deep tried love of one.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has thine own dear playful look— Thy smile! thy sun-bright hair! Thy brow—so like a holy book With sweet thoughts written there! The full, soft lids, half-raised above Those blue and dreamy eyes, Within whose gaze of trusting love No fear—no falsehood lies! Like lonely lakes of Heaven's pure rain Reflecting only Heaven again.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the Old Bailey is a charming place. We were introduced to a live Lord Mayor, and I sat between two sheriffs. The common sergeant talked to me familiarly, and I am not sure that the Governor of Newgate did not call me "Nelly." [...] We have seen a great deal of life, and learned a great deal of the criminal law of England this week—knowledge cheaply purchased at the cost of all my wardrobe and all my mother's plate. We have gone through two examinations in court; they were very hurrying and agitating affairs, and I had to kiss either the Bible or the magistrate, I don't recollect which, but it smelled like thumbs.”
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her experiences in court after her home was robbed, in a letter to the writer Mary Berry (1846)