Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

Mary Wortley Montagu
English Writer
Born: May 26, 1689
Died: Aug 21, 1762
Anything Man Short Time Will You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. Mary Wortley Montagu
Happiness Life Ignorance Youth Nothing Pay Those Hopes Vanity Invaluable Makes Which Companion Lively
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Mary Wortley Montagu
Entertainment Reading Lasting Pleasure Cheap Nor Any
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. Mary Wortley Montagu
Beautiful People Build Think Suited Considering Some Purposes Houses Without Educate According Children Whether Which Commonly Plan Designed
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. Mary Wortley Montagu
Trust First Virtue Temptation Never Nobody Force Known Felt Till Duties Which Should Avoid Therefore Necessity
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. Mary Wortley Montagu
Before Nothing Say Circumstances Laughed Tell Has-Been Fabulous Observed New Said Been Dull Very Romantic Anything Us Hard Travellers
In short I will part with anything for you but you. Mary Wortley Montagu
You Will Part Short Romantic Anything
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. Mary Wortley Montagu
Queen Free Prisoner Free Agents More Knave Takes She Than Hearts Clubs Agents
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. Mary Wortley Montagu
Time Money Men Manners General Writers Never Robbing Likely Readers Time And Money Been Loss Representing Romance Them Double Novels Things Bring
Solitude begets whimsies. Mary Wortley Montagu
Solitude Begets
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. Mary Wortley Montagu
Happiness Face Too Slight Foundation
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. Mary Wortley Montagu
Good Word Power Duty Rich Sort Another May Being Tis Riches

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