William Shenstone Quotes
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Knowledge, Books, World)
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Beauty, Simplicity, Variety)
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Hope, Man, Poor)
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Fear, Envy, Jealousy)
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Laws)
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Thoughts)
"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Eye)
"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Poetry, Prose, Scripture)
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Money, Friend, Dependence, Insincerity)
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Poetry)
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Truth, Falsehood)
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Men, Belief, Strength)
"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Pleasure, Unhappiness)
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Love, Time, Country)
"Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true."
- William Shenstone
"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Anger, Power, Control, Force, World)
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Man, Miser, Poor)
"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Man, Mankind)
"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Economy, Old)
"A fool and his words are soon parted."
- William Shenstone
(Related: Fool, Words)
"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."
- William Shenstone
(Related: People, May, World)
"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."
- William Shenstone
(Related: People, Day, Envy, Nothing, Reason)
"Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed."
- William Shenstone