Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.

I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Sikap yang santun harus menghiasi orang yang berpengetahuan dan melicinkan jalannya dalam pergaulan.

Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

you are whatever the company you keep is.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.

Women then are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle and sometimes wit , but for solid , reasoning good - sense , I never knew in my life one that had it , or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four -and-twenty hours together. Some little passion or humour always breaks in upon their best resolutions... No flattery is too high or low for them...