Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Superior
Superiors
Poor
Flatterer
Hope
Huts
Wells
Parasites
Well
Upright
Men
Palace
Palaces
More quotes by William Shenstone
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
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
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
William Shenstone
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
William Shenstone
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
William Shenstone
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
William Shenstone
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
William Shenstone
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
William Shenstone
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
William Shenstone
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
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
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
William Shenstone
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
William Shenstone
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments when to those of our own sect, we call them trials when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
William Shenstone
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
William Shenstone
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
William Shenstone
