Quote #3

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Philip Stanhope

  1. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
  2. The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
  3. The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
  4. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  5. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
  6. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
  7. 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, i…
  8. 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.

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