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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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It has all been most interesting.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
To be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Life is too short for a long story.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
People never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
If it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
One can never outlive one's vanity.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It's all been very interesting.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Civility costs nothing and buys everything
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Forgive what you can't excuse ...
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
One would suffer a great deal to be happy.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Men are vile inconstant toads.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people
— Mary Wortley Montagu