I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
