Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

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TimeMeImpossibleSpeakLaughYou

I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.

John Fleming

FuturePartyBrightBright Future

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

PeopleStoryThinkTalkFailBig

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

John McCain

GodGovernmentThank GodMediaOur

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Andy Warhol

FeelAmericaYouLookMoviesThings

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Chief Joseph

GreatMistakeAnimalThinkYouWild

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

Arsene Wenger

LiveRespectYouFindGoAccept

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

LearningProcessYouSomethingRiot

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

Alicia Garza

BlackHumanNationAlwaysCoreBeen

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

Susanne Bier

ChildrenYouLookFairyPretty

I think hair is just, like, the most important thing about you.

Pete Wentz

HairThinkYouImportantJustLike

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

Thomas Frank

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