Hate Quote by Henry Home, Lord Kames

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames