Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient”.
Read more about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Early Life, Marriage and Embassy To Constantinople, Later Years, Ottoman Smallpox Inoculation, Important Works, Literary Place
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“Life is too short for a long story.”
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
“In Hydaspia, by Howzen,
Lived a lady, Lady Lowzen,
For whom what is was other things.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“Life is too short for a long story.”
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
“Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others’ retiring.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)