Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Wortley Montagu Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.