Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Solitude begets whimsies. >>

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

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All >>

Quotations about War

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

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of >>

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chanc >>

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley