Mary Wortley Montagu's Profile
Brief about Mary Wortley Montagu: By info that we know Mary Wortley Montagu was born at 1970-01-01. And also Mary Wortley Montagu is English Writer.
Some Mary Wortley Montagu's quotes. Goto "Mary Wortley Montagu's quotation" section for more.While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Tags: Friend, Mind, PeaceIn short I will part with anything for you but you.
Tags: ShortThe pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Tags: Laugh, Pretty, TimeWe 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.
Tags: Hard, Romantic, SaidWriters 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.
Tags: Men, Money, TimeWe are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Tags: Free, She, TakesI don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Tags: Greatest, Impossible, RiseI 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.
Tags: Blessings, Great, HateNobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Tags: Enemy, Laugh, ReligionNobody 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.
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