Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
1689–1762 England
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered today for her letters.
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Also known as: Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Mary Wortley Montagu, Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.
The Lady’s Resolve (1713)
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
But when the long hours of Public are past
And we meet with Champaign and a Chicken at last,
May every fond Pleasure that hour endear.
That you are in a terrible taking,
By all these sweet oglings I see;
But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
Indeed is too mellow for me.
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs,
With patience suffers unexpected rain;
He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares,
And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain.
But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme,
If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly observed that the human race might be divided into three separate classes—men, women and H-v-eys [Herveys].
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