Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Regret, Reading

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

• My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Study, Human Nature, Pleasure

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.346

• I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Profound

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Childhood, Age, Pleasure

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.318

• It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Views, One Day, Pleasure

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.419

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