To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

- Elizabeth Montagu

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

- Elizabeth Montagu

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of…

- Elizabeth Montagu

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

- Elizabeth Montagu

I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and pa…

- Elizabeth Montagu

Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may b…

- Elizabeth Montagu

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there …

- Elizabeth Montagu

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

- Elizabeth Montagu

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

- Elizabeth Montagu