William Shenstone Quote

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.


The Works, in Verse and Prose (ed. 1764)


A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.