All William Shenstone Quotes
- Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. Critic
- Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. Dependence
- 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,… Akin
- Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. All
- My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. Banks
- The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to… Felt
- The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. Aunt
- Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. Composition
- Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his… Absolute
- To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or… Art
- Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. Approach
- Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. Been
- Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. Acquire
- The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. Divided
- Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty. Beauty
- Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his… All
- Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. Consumption
- The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. Easy
- A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. Considered
- 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… Base