Cheap Reading Quote by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to captivate, there…

— Jane Austen

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...

— William Shakespeare

“Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.”

— Jane Austen

“The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have…

— Christopher Morley

“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements; she loved to surprise English visitors with…

— Ben H. Winters

“When I first came to London I became a Life Member of the London Library. London life was costly, but I felt that, if…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent,…

— Jane Austen

“When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.…

— Annabelle Gurwitch

“This blood feud is a bit too Shakespearean, if ye want the truth. I’m no Montague, and ye’re no Capulet.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

“But as it turned out, the two had a great deal in common, for both Bailey and Thackeray (named for the famous novelist William…

— Susan Wittig Albert

“Upon her butler’s announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up…

— Georgette Heyer