Quotes 41 till 60 of 108.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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In my mind, there is no, thing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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In my opinion, parsons are very like other men, neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
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In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others.
Source: Letters (1892)
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