Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
More Quotes from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, In part she is to blame that has been tried He comes too near that comes to be denied.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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