More - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

Life is too short for a long story.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Anecdotes

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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Aristocracy

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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Books And Reading

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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Credulity

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Custom

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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Daughters

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Faces

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Pain

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Human Nature

We travelers 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.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 Travel And Tourism