Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes (10 quotations)
1. Civility costs nothing and buys everything. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
2. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
3. I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
4. I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
5. It has all been very interesting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
6. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
7. Prudent 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. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
8. The idle mind will sometimes fall into contemplations that serve for nothing but to ruin the health, destroy good humour, hasten old age and wrinkles, and bring on an habitual melancholy. 'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: 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 make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day... - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
9. 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
10. You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
2. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
3. I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
4. I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
5. It has all been very interesting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
6. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
7. Prudent 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. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
8. The idle mind will sometimes fall into contemplations that serve for nothing but to ruin the health, destroy good humour, hasten old age and wrinkles, and bring on an habitual melancholy. 'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: 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 make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day... - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
9. 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
10. You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
