Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.642, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

• The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Passion, Knowledge

  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.375

• Solitude begets whimsies.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Solitude, Whimsy, Begets

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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