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Top 15 Elizabeth Montagu Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “I never invite idiots to my house.”

2. “I never invite idiots to my house.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.”

3. “I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle’s rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.”

4. “To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle’s rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.”

5. “The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.”

6. “The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.”

7. “Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.”

8. “The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire...”

9. “I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire...”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.”

10. “Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.”

— Elizabeth Montagu

Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?”

11. “Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?”

— Elizabeth Montagu

Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.”

12. “You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.”

14. “Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.”

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Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.”

15. “It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.”

— Elizabeth Montagu

Elizabeth Montagu Quote: “Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one’s neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won’t, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so...”

16. “Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one’s neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won’t, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so...”

— Elizabeth Montagu

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