Lady Mary Montagu Quotes

Most popular Lady Mary Montagu Quotes

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
— Lady Mary Montagu Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

civility

Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything.
— Lady Mary Montagu
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
— Lady Mary Montagu Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

happiness face

To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day.
— Lady Mary Montagu

wisdom

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.
— Lady Mary Montagu

socialism

If twas the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observ'd. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
If twas the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observ'd.
— Lady Mary Montagu Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

face

The fruit that can fall without shaking,
Indeed is too mellow for me. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
The fruit that can fall without shaking,
Indeed is too mellow for me.
— Lady Mary Montagu The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vol. 5

challenges

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
— Lady Mary Montagu

reading

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
— Lady Mary Montagu The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

self-esteem

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Lady Mary Montagu

advice

People wish their enemies dead—but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
People wish their enemies dead—but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
— Lady Mary Montagu

enemies

Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen,
Wound with a touch, that's scarcely felt or seen. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen,
Wound with a touch, that's scarcely felt or seen.
— Lady Mary Montagu The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vol. 5

satire

I enjoy vast delight in the folly of mankind; and, God be praised, that is an inexhaustible source of entertainment. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
I enjoy vast delight in the folly of mankind; and, God be praised, that is an inexhaustible source of entertainment.
— Lady Mary Montagu

folly

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
— Lady Mary Montagu The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

sisters

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise: they lay aside that distrust which is the surest guard against indiscretion. - Lady Mary Montagu quote.
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise: they lay aside that distrust which is the surest guard against indiscretion.
— Lady Mary Montagu

foolishness

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 Montagu quote.
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 Montagu Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

parenting education

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
— Lady Mary Montagu

wisdom