Quotes of Mary Montagu - somelinesforyou

“ There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. ”

- Mary 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 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 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 Montagu

“ While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ”

- Mary 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 Montagu

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

- Mary Montagu

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

- Mary Montagu

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

- Mary 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 Montagu

“ True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. ”

- Mary Montagu

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

- Mary Montagu

“ People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one. ”

- Mary 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 Montagu

“ People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. ”

- Mary Montagu

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

- Mary Montagu

“ While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ”

- Mary 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 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 Montagu

“ 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. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own. ”

- Mary Montagu
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