Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

'Tis a maxim with me to be young as long as one can: 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 make all the happiness of life. To my extreme mortification I grow wiser every day.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Would with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.

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.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.