Quotes by Mary Worley Montagu
mary worley montagu
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
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 ...
mary worley montagu
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
mary worley montagu
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
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 ...
mary worley montagu
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 ...
mary worley montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
