You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself. Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes From Mary Wortley Montagu Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say. Mary Wortley Montagu maxims remember It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. Mary Wortley Montagu being-a-woman matrimony danger Forgive what you can't excuse. Mary Wortley Montagu forgiveness forgiving excuse The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another. Mary Wortley Montagu decay gambling tables one would suffer a great deal to be happy. Mary Wortley Montagu deals suffering happiness The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one. Mary Wortley Montagu married reflection facts I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them. Mary Wortley Montagu gender married sex Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch. Mary Wortley Montagu pockets reading people Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature? Mary Wortley Montagu husband nature art I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company. Mary Wortley Montagu fellows company laughter people never write calmly but when they write indifferently. Mary Wortley Montagu indifference writing people 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. Mary Wortley Montagu lace illness break-out Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. Mary Wortley Montagu husband names two My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history. Mary Wortley Montagu romance stupid writing to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress. Mary Wortley Montagu redress should complaining 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. Mary Wortley Montagu perfect lying looks One can never outlive one's vanity. Mary Wortley Montagu vanity Men are vile inconstant toads. Mary Wortley Montagu toads men We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. Mary Wortley Montagu asks should education Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind. Mary Wortley Montagu powerful farewell justice
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