Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
Gardener
Horticulturist
Poet
Writer
Foreign
Bear
Reside
Bears
Nationalism
Means
Increasing
Country
Patriotic
Mean
Patriotism
Time
Native
Love
Proper
More quotes by William Shenstone
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
William Shenstone
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
William Shenstone
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
William Shenstone
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
William Shenstone
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
William Shenstone
The fund of sensible discourse is limited that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William Shenstone
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
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
William Shenstone
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
William Shenstone
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
William Shenstone
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
William Shenstone
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
William Shenstone
