Famous Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Below are famous quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762).

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

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

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

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