Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  

  Jack Germond
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Help
  • Me
  • Talking

• The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • City
  • Road
  • Yellow

• Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • New
  • Something
  • Deportation

• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Mercy

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Sleep
  • Succeed
  • Decency

• All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Women
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Together
  • Respect

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Job

• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World

• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-For years fleet away with the wings of the dove- The dearest remembrance will still be the last,Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Past
  • Kiss

• As an artist, you’re never happy with anything you do. It’s part of the process. You’re never really happy. I’m certainly not. That’s a good thing. It means you’re always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Hope

• I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

  

  Eileen Ford
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you'll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Up
  • Live
  • Home

• I could legitimately put someone in a headlock, for sure.

  

  Gayle Rankin

• I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Up
  • Society
  • College

• Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

  

  Gene Green
  • Political
  • Environment

• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu