29 Philip Stanhope Quotes

Philip Stanhope quotes

1. The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.

2. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

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3. Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

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4. The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

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5. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

6. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

7. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

8. There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

9. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

10. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

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11. Take the tone of the company you are in.

12. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

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13. Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

14. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

15. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

16. Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

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17. Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

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18. Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

19. Style is the dress of thoughts.

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20. Dispatch is the soul of business.

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21. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

22. Let blockheads read what blockheads write.

23. It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.

24. Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

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25. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

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26. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

27. Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

28. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

29. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.