We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Mary Wortley MontaguThere can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
Mary Wortley MontaguI am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
Mary Wortley MontaguI have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
Mary Wortley Montagu