Frases de Mary Montagu

“Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.”

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

“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”

“But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.”

“In response to Lady Mary Montague's line 'And we meet, with champagne and a chicken at last' (from Montague's poem 'The Lover: A Ballad'):
"What say you to such a supper with such a woman? … Is not her 'champagne and chicken' worth a forest or two? Is it not poetry?"”

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

“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.”