Mary Montagu Quotes (9 Quotes)

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Remember my unalterable maxim, When we love, we always have something to say

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

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att

People wish their enemies dead, but I do not I say give them the gout, give them the stone

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes

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

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.