“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
Mary Wortley Montagu“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
Mary Wortley Montagu“The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.”
Mary Wortley Montagu“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
Mary Wortley Montagu“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”
Mary Wortley Montagu“But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu