Mary Wortley Montagu Famous Quotes
"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."
"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings."
Life is too short for a long story.
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
"There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind."
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
It has all been very interesting.
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
Mary Wortley Montagu Quotations
"Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness."
Vincent McNabb
"A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour."
P G Wodehouse
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike."
Eric Bently
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
Lester J Pourciau
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Samuel Grafton
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
John C Maxwell
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.
Gertrude Stein
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
"We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily."
Celeste Holm