Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes

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• The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that…
• In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit, which he was…
• His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and…
• A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak…
• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
• Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion…
• It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since hemust know that…
• For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives…

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