Mary Worley Montagu Quotes

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. - Mary Worley Montagu

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. - Mary Worley Montagu

People wish their enemies dead, but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! - Mary Worley Montagu

People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own. - Mary Worley Montagu

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. - Mary Worley Montagu

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness. - Mary Worley 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 Worley Montagu

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Mary Worley Montagu

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasure for every state. - Mary Worley Montagu

It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one. - Mary Worley Montagu

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