Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes & Quotations

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

» I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

» People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

» Life is too short for a long story.

» I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

» No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

» While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

» I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

» Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

» The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

» We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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