Quote

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

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
Names
Pun
Obnoxious
Thankful
Name

More quotes by William Shenstone

Image
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
William Shenstone
Image
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone
Image
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
William Shenstone
Image
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
William Shenstone
Image
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
Image
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
William Shenstone
Image
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
William Shenstone
Image
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.
William Shenstone
Image
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
William Shenstone
Image
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
Image
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
William Shenstone
Image
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
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
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone
Image
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
William Shenstone