"Anne of Austria (with great submission to a……" — Philip Dormer Stanhope
"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 without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine."
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Philip Dormer Stanhope
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8 Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
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The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I…
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In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse,…
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But…
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A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but…
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and…
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It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at…
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for…
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