Top 26 Elizabeth Montagu Quotes
#1. It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
#2. She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#3. You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.
Philip Rivers
#4. 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
#5. 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 be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so ...
Elizabeth Montagu
#6. It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.
Elizabeth Montagu
#7. I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu
#8. 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
#9. At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
#12. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu
#14. Where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.
Deepakgogna
#15. Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
Elizabeth Montagu
#16. Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.
Elizabeth Montagu
#17. If you're too overcome to even finish your sentence then you must be sincere, you must really mean what you're not saying, you must ... I'm sorry. I cannot type. My fingers are crying.
Mark Forsyth
#18. I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...
Elizabeth Montagu
#19. Love the peace not the war,
love the humanity and take care.
Debasish Mridha
#20. 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 is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
Elizabeth Montagu
#21. The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.
Elizabeth Montagu
#22. Planned parenthood in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.
Gunnar Myrdal
#23. 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 the unfortunate.
Elizabeth Montagu
#24. Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?
Elizabeth Montagu
#25. You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.
Elizabeth Montagu
#26. The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.
Gary Chapman
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