Dear Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

One can never outlive one's vanity.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

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

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

“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