Philip Stanhope Quotes
"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Anger, Indifference)
"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."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Time, Day, Will)
"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Time, Letters, Politeness)
"Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Wife, Reason)
"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: People, Inferiority, Friends)
"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Discretion, Judgment)
"It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Business, Eyes, Folly, Fraud, Man, Open, Right, Wrong)
"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Nature, Gratitude, Burden)
"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Fear, Fools, Majority, Mankind)
"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Thoughts, Care, Clothes, Dress, Words)
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Women, Growth, Children, Man, Sense, Trifles)