Famous quotes containing the words wortley and/or montagu:
“Life is too short for a long story.”
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
“Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; ‘tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)