Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes & Sayings

24 most famous Mary Wortley Montagu quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.”

“Life is too short for a long story.”

“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”

“In short I will part with anything for you but you.”

“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”

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

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

“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.”

“The 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.”

“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.”