Quote #25
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Philip Stanhope
- Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
- It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
- Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
- Let blockheads read what blockheads write.
- Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge…
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.