Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes - Page 5

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• One can never outlive one's vanity.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Vanity

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.179

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• I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lying, Perfect, Looks

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.183

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• My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Break Out, Lace, Illness

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• people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Writing, People, Indifference

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.146

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• 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.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Hate, Blessing, Titles

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.164

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