Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Quotes
16 Sourced Quotes
Immodest words admit of no defense,
For want of decency is want of sense.
For want of decency is want of sense.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me at my end.
Do not forsake me at my end.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Praise Him, each savage furious beast
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe.
I hate to see, and never can believe.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
