Mary Wortley Montagu foi uma aristocrata, escritora e feminista inglesa.
Montagu é mais lembrada pelas cartas, particularmente as cartas da Turquia, as quais foram descritas, por Billie Melman, como "o primeiro exemplo de um trabalho secular escrito por uma mulher sobre o Oriente Muçulmano".
“A civilidade nada custa e tudo compra.”
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Vol. II, Página 299 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=1JAwpMWpAC4C&pg=PA299, de Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe, William Moy Thomas, Louisa Stuart - Publicado por Henry G. Bohn, 1861 - 514 páginas
The Lady’s Resolve (1713). A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montagu, after her marriage. Compare: "In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide", Sir Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), A Wife, stanza 36.
“But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.”
The Answer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.”
A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s Advice.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
