William Shenstone - Men Quotes

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key.

William Shenstone

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

William Shenstone

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

William Shenstone

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

William Shenstone

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

William Shenstone

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

William Shenstone

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

William Shenstone