Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Pleasure Quotes

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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu