"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor……" — Mary Wortley Montagu
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
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Mary Wortley Montagu
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69 Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Wortley Montagu has 69 quotes on this site.
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It has all been most interesting.
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what…
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who…
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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the…
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Solitude begets whimsies.
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You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
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But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
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As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
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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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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning…
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