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 Montaguit 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 MontaguShe 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