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Elizabeth Montagu quotes: You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

Elizabeth Montagu quotes: I never invite idiots to my house.

I never invite idiots to my house.