--- title: "Philip Stanhope Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Philip Stanhope reminds us that knowledge is brief but accidents linger, sparking reflection on learning and experience. Read all 36 quotes on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Philip Stanhope quotes 1. > The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 3. > Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 4. > The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 5. > Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 11. > Take the tone of the company you are in. [Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 12. > Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. [Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/12/ "Permalink to quote 12") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 13. > Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. [Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 14. > Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. [Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 15. > Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. [Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 16. > Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. [Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 17. > Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. [Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/17/ "Permalink to quote 17") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 18. > Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. [Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 19. > Style is the dress of thoughts. [Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 20. > Dispatch is the soul of business. [Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 21. > Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. [Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/21/ "Permalink to quote 21") 22. > Let blockheads read what blockheads write. [Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/22/ "Permalink to quote 22") 23. > It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth. [Permalink to quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 24. > Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. [Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/24/ "Permalink to quote 24") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 25. > An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. [Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/25/ "Permalink to quote 25") Attribution disputed; shown as originally published. 26. > I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. [Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 27. > Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. [Permalink to quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") 28. > Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. [Permalink to quote \#28](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/28/ "Permalink to quote 28") 29. > A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. [Permalink to quote \#29](https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope/29/ "Permalink to quote 29") ## Also attributed 1. > The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separatereasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are. 2. > Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of withimself to endure a great share of it in another. 3. > His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction, and stern dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and thebest able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk underthe ascendant which his genius gained over theirs. 4. > In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit, which he was too free of for aman in his station, as it is always inconsistent with dignity. He was very able as aminister, but without a certain elevation of mind necessary for great good, or great mischief. 5. > “Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.” 6. > “I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. ” 7. > “Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.” ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Philip Stanhope Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/Philip-Stanhope", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Take the tone of the company you are in.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Stanhope" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. 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