Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Dissimulate, but do not simulate, disguise your real sentiments, but do not falsify them. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and mouth mostly shut. When new or stale gossip is brought to you, never let on that you know it already, nor that it really interests you.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

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