Mary Wortley MontaguIt has all been most interesting.371Philosophy
Mary Wortley MontaguThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). The Letters and Works: I… ▶371Love
Mary Wortley MontaguIt's all been very interesting.362Humanity
Mary Wortley MontaguNo modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). Letters, p.115, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group351Philosophy
Mary Wortley MontaguThere can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-… ▶352Life
Mary Wortley MontaguPhilosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite… ▶353Philosophy
Mary Wortley MontaguA face is too slight a foundation for happiness. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). The Letters and Works of Lady Mary… ▶353Sadness
Mary Wortley MontaguWriters 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, o… ▶354LoveReadingTime
Mary Wortley MontaguIt is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.344HopeReflectionTime
Mary Wortley MontaguGeneral notions are generally wrong. ✨ Letter to her husband Edward Wortley Montagu, 28 March 1710, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Monta… ▶366Reading
Mary Wortley MontaguBut the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me. ✨ 'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mar… ▶323Philosophy
Mary Wortley Montagu'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 (2015). Letters, p.114, Knopf Doubleday… ▶356Politics
Mary Wortley MontaguThere 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 o… ▶313HopeLife
Mary Wortley MontaguI 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.313Love
Mary Wortley MontaguWhile conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.368Thought
Mary Wortley MontaguNobody 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. 337Thought
Mary Wortley MontaguPrudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. 315DeathHumanityThought
Mary Wortley MontaguPeople 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 … ▶304HumanityReflectionThought
Mary Wortley MontaguThe knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). The… ▶305Humor
Mary Wortley MontaguTrue knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspo… ▶294Truth
Mary Wortley MontaguMy chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). The Letters of Lady Mary W… ▶3510HumanityLife
Mary Wortley MontaguA 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. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald … ▶307Politics
Mary Wortley MontaguI prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes, p.269264Humor
Mary Wortley MontaguNobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Dallaway (181… ▶276PoliticsTime
Mary Wortley MontaguBe plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). Th… ▶266Death
Mary Wortley MontaguStrictly 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, s… ▶212LoveReflectionSadness
Mary Wortley MontaguWe are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ✨ Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie… ▶212Love
Mary Wortley MontaguI am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I k… ▶235HumanityReflectionSadness
Mary Wortley MontaguI believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. ✨ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Ma… ▶191Death
Mary Wortley MontaguThe use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a s… ▶214LifeLove
