Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes - Page 5

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• Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Pain, Real, Grief

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.50

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• I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Laughter, Company, Fellows

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1993). “Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

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  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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• 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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• The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Mountain, Most Romantic

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