"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious." ― Marguerite Gardiner Topic(s): Patience More From Marguerite Gardiner "Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates." "We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers." "Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?" More In Patience "Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."― Peter Stuyvesant "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."― Hal Borland "It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."― Hart Crane