119 Quotes by 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!

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.