I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

General notions are generally wrong.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

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

- Mary Wortley Montagu

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our know…

- Mary Wortley Montagu

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

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

- Mary Wortley Montagu

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

- Mary Wortley Montagu