Philip Stanhope Quotes on Social

3 quotes

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    #16 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  3. Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

    #24 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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