Lady Mary Wortley

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or wortley:

“A lady with soft eyes like funeral tapers,
And face that seemed wrought out of moonlit vapours,
And a sad mouth, that fear made tremulous
As any ruddy moth, looked down on us;
And she with a wave-rusted chain was tied
To two old eagles, full of ancient pride....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Life is too short for a long story.”
—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)