Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(347 votes)   I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(330 votes)   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
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(294 votes)   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
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(285 votes)   Life is too short for a long story.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(256 votes)   I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(253 votes)   No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(249 votes)   Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(247 votes)   We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(241 votes)   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
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(181 votes)   It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(171 votes)   Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(168 votes)   Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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(133 votes)   The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(131 votes)   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
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(123 votes)   We travelers 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
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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