List of Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

It Has All Been Most Interesting.

Lord Bacon Makes Beauty To Consist Of Grace And Motion.

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.

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.

People Never Write Calmly But When They Write Indifferently.

My Health Is So Often Impaired That I Begin To Be As Weary Of It As Mending Old Lace; When It Is Patched In One Place, It Breaks Out In Another.

The Use Of Knowledge In Our Sex (beside The Amusement Of Solitude) Is To Moderate The Passions And Learn To Be Contented With A Small Expense, Which Are The Certain Effects Of A Studious Life And, It May Be, Preferable Even To That Fame Which Men Have Engrossed To Themselves And Will Not Suffer Us To Share.

My Dear Smollett ... Disgraces His Talent By Writing Those Stupid Romances Called History.

As Marriage Produces Children, So Children Produce Care And Disputes; And Wrangling.

To Be Reasonable One Should Never Complain But When One Hopes Redress.

A Propos Of Distempers, I Am Going To Tell You A Thing That I Am Sure Will Make You Wish Your Selfe Here. The Small Pox So Fatal And So General Amongst Us Is Here Entirely Harmless By The Invention Of Engrafting (which Is The Term They Give It). There Is A Set Of Old Women Who Make It Their Business To Perform The Operation.