Mary Wortley Montagu

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

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Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

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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.

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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

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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.

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

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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

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General notions are generally wrong.

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... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

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

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

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Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu