Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Life is too short for a long story. >>

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

Quotations about Upbringing

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracef >>

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist >>

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposi >>

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley