'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word...
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Th...
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorio...
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool...
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU It has all been very interesting.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and l...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unre...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but th...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it b...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted w...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, wher...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that a...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate a...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so consid...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and gen...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who alwa...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessing...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Life is too short for a long story.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Solitude begets whimsies.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sa...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with al...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest featu...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, a...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
MARY MONTAGU Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer so...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; a...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but th...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sa...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Natur...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their posse...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of mar...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU General notions are generally wrong
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that a...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted w...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes
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 ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and gen...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Only a mother knows a mother's fondness
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU People wish their enemies dead, but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Wife and servant are the same, but only differ in the name: For when that fatal knot is tied, which ...
LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillmen...
ASHLEY MONTAGU I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot b...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU The idea is to die young as late as possible.
ASHLEY MONTAGU It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
ASHLEY MONTAGU Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thin...
ASHLEY MONTAGU One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing abo...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The Good Book / one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
ASHLEY MONTAGU There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree
ASHLEY MONTAGU The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught ...
ASHLEY MONTAGU Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
ASHLEY MONTAGU Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
ASHLEY MONTAGU One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing...
ASHLEY MONTAGU It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it i...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
ASHLEY MONTAGU The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the fami...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what o...
ASHLEY MONTAGU Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in th...
ASHLEY MONTAGU Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
ASHLEY MONTAGU The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
ASHLEY MONTAGU The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they s...
ASHLEY MONTAGU There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member ha...
ASHLEY MONTAGU It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not ...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the fami...
ASHLEY MONTAGU She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire gr...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot b...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer ...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...
ASHLEY MONTAGU I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content when I cannot be m...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Countr...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU . . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a ...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...
ASHLEY MONTAGU To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Co...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer ...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU I never invite idiots to my house.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest cl...
LADY GAGA Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
LADY GAGA I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
LADY GAGA Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their i...
LADY STARLIGHT I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
LADY STARLIGHT I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. I...
LADY STARLIGHT If everything is the same, nothing is special.
LADY STARLIGHT Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
LADY STARLIGHT As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
LADY STARLIGHT I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and ...
LADY STARLIGHT I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occur...
LADY STARLIGHT We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
LADY GAGA I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use i...
LADY GAGA I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision m...
LADY GAGA I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was...
LADY GAGA I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
LADY GAGA I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an ef...
LADY GAGA I'm perpetually lonely.
LADY GAGA I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
LADY GAGA I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in ever...
LADY GAGA I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
LADY GAGA Pop music will never be low brow.
LADY GAGA I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and...
LADY GAGA Meditation helps me to calm down.
LADY GAGA My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the...
LADY GAGA You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.
LADY DIANA I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes...
LADY GAGA ‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglass...
LADY GAGA Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
LADY GAGA Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?
LADY GAGA I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I ...
LADY GAGA I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...
LADY GAGA I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
LADY GAGA I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
LADY GAGA Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mothe...
LADY GAGA Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering w...
LADY GAGA And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
LADY GAGA The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...
LADY KASLUCK Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
LADY BLOOMFIELD A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney v...
LADY GAGA Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't...
LADY GAGA I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional ...
LADY GAGA I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
LADY GAGA What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'...
LADY GAGA I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it ...
LADY GAGA The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible...
LADY GAGA History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or ...
LADY GAGA There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY