I give my selfe sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I have too much indulged my sedentary humour and have been a rake in reading.
Letter to her daughter Lady Bute, 11 April 1759
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Remember my unalterable maxim, where we love, we have always something to say...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A soldier worthy of the name he bears,
As brave and senseless as the sword he wears.
As brave and senseless as the sword he wears.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Thine is an oyster knife that hacks and hews —
The rage but not the talent to abuse.
The rage but not the talent to abuse.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
As Ovid has sweetly in parable told,
We harden like trees, and like rivers grow cold.
We harden like trees, and like rivers grow cold.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
My dear Smollett... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay,
And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?
And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?
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
