Mary Worley Montagu Quotes

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. - Mary Worley Montagu

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. - Mary Worley Montagu

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine. - Mary Worley Montagu

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. - Mary Worley Montagu

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. - Mary Worley Montagu

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. - Mary Worley Montagu

The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. - Mary Worley Montagu

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. - Mary Worley Montagu

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself. - Mary Worley Montagu

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