Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, acc >>

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

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, >>

Quotations about Credulity

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've develope >>

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being di >>

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. >>

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley