Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - People Quotes

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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I have never in all my various travels seen but two sorts of people, and those very like one another; I mean men and women, who always have been and ever will be the same.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People wish their enemies dead—but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu