Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial >>

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. >>

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infid >>

Quotations about Knowledge

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; >>

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically >>

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people >>

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.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley