I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot b...
ELIZABETH 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 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 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 The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE) By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillmen...
ASHLEY 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 I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
MARY 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 It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...
ASHLEY 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 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 Life is too short for a long story.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Solitude begets whimsies.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer so...
MARY WORLEY 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 I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of...
MARY WORLEY 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 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 The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with al...
MARY WORTLEY 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 Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest featu...
MARY WORTLEY 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 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 We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW