Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762)


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

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
- Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
- You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
- I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - last words, 1762
- It has all been very interesting.