Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - last words, 1762
It has all been very interesting.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu