Quote

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

William Shenstone

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
Gardener
Horticulturist
Poet
Writer
House
Littles
Little
Writing
Composition
Long
Sentences
Like
Large
Short
Rooms

More quotes by William Shenstone

Image
Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.
William Shenstone
Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
Image
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
Image
A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.
William Shenstone
Image
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
William Shenstone
Image
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
Image
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
William Shenstone
Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
William Shenstone
Image
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone
Image
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
William Shenstone
Image
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
William Shenstone
Image
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
Image
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
William Shenstone
Image
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
William Shenstone
Image
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
Image
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
William Shenstone
Image
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
William Shenstone
Image
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
William Shenstone
Image
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
William Shenstone