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 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 '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 Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
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 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 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 Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH