True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes From Mary Wortley Montagu I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Mary Wortley Montagu humorous profound people 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. Mary Wortley Montagu pain grief real 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! Mary Wortley Montagu sacrifice men war It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. Mary Wortley Montagu parenting beautiful thinking It has all been very interesting. Mary Wortley Montagu You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody 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. Mary Wortley Montagu laugh sick world religion
