Quotes by Cavendish

“there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.””

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

“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.””

“I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.””