Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Much
Sensitive
Fingers
Plant
Touch
Withers
Approach
Deference
Upon
Shrinks
Often
Finger
Doe
Intimacy
More quotes by William Shenstone
People can commend the weather without envy.
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
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
William Shenstone
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
William Shenstone
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
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
William Shenstone
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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
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
Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
William Shenstone
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
William Shenstone
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
William Shenstone
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
William Shenstone
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
