Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
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Famous Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
Source: Turkish Embassy Letters
Source: Letters
“Life is too short for a long story”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.”
“But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.”
“As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.”
Source: Turkish Embassy Letters
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: Letters
“The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: Selected Letters
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.”
Source: Letters
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.”
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.”
Source: Letters
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“In short I will part with anything for you but you.”
Source: Letters
Source: The Works: I. Letters, during her residence abroad, 1746-1756
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: 1708-1720
Source: Lettres de Lady Marie Wortley Montagu, 'ecrites Pendant Ses Voyages en Europe, en Asie Et en Afrique
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”
“People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.”
Source: Turkish Embassy Letters