Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

English writer

Lived from: 1689 - 1762

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 may 1689 Died: 21 august 1762

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  • 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.
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  • Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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  • 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.
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  • The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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  • 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 makes all the happiness of life.
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  • To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
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  • We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
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  • We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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  • 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.
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  • While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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  • 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.
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