Elizabeth Montagu Quotes

"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Women, Consequences, Wit, Wounds)

"She 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
(Related: Ladies, Opinion, Oysters, Party)

"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Content)

"I never invite idiots to my house."
- Elizabeth Montagu
(Related: Idiots)