Quote #13
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
More from Philip Stanhope
- Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
- 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.
- Take the tone of the company you are in.
- 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 c…
- Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
- Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who…
- Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
- 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.