Мэри Монтегю цитаты

„Вежливость ничего не стоит, но приносит много.“

—  Мэри Монтегю

„No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

„I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.“

—  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

„Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s Advice.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

The Answer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„In response to Lady Mary Montague's line 'And we meet, with champagne and a chicken at last' (from Montague's poem 'The Lover: A Ballad'):
"What say you to such a supper with such a woman? … Is not her 'champagne and chicken' worth a forest or two? Is it not poetry?"“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

„Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.“

—  Mary Wortley Montagu

The Lady’s Resolve (1713). A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montagu, after her marriage. Compare: "In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide", Sir Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), A Wife, stanza 36.