Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victorious >>

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me >>

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is >>

Quotations about Mediocrity

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, co >>

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. >>

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. >>

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley