Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. >>

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see >>

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. >>

Quotations about Necessity

Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes >>

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. >>

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursui >>

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley