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Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Life is too short for a long story.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Solitude begets whimsies.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It has all been very interesting.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu