(34 quotes found)
“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”
Mary Worley Montagu
“Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.”
“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.”
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen”
“I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégout given by satiety.”
“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”
“Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say”
“Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att”
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
