Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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
Bees
Invites
Whose
Sleep
Murmur
Furnish
Banks
More quotes by William Shenstone
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
William Shenstone
People can commend the weather without envy.
William Shenstone
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
William Shenstone
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
William Shenstone
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
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
William Shenstone
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
William Shenstone
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life birth itself does but little.
William Shenstone
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
William Shenstone
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
William Shenstone
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
William Shenstone
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
William Shenstone
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
William Shenstone
However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.
William Shenstone
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
William Shenstone
