119 Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu

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

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.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is too short for a long story

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.