Mary Wortley Montagu
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.Collection: Fashion
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.Collection: Wine
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.Collection: Philosopher
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.Collection: School
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.Collection: Power
Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.Collection: Understanding
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.Collection: Fashion
A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.Collection: Science