Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
May
Dress
Persons
Dresses
Person
Create
Little
Enemy
Love
Rich
Deference
Beauty
Adds
Rather
Possibly
Littles
Add
More quotes by William Shenstone
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
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
William Shenstone
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
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William Shenstone
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
William Shenstone
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
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
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
William Shenstone
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
William Shenstone
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
William Shenstone
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
William Shenstone
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
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
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
William Shenstone
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
William Shenstone
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
William Shenstone
