Zitate von Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Philip Dormer Stanhope:
Politiker lieben nicht und hassen nicht. Das Interesse, nicht das Gefühl, beherrscht sie.
Informationen über Philip Dormer Stanhope
Politiker, Schriftsteller, "Briefe an seinen Sohn Philip Stanhope über die anstrengende Kunst, ein Gentleman zu werden", "Die Kunst unter Menschen glücklich zu leben" (Irland, 1694 - 1773).
Philip Dormer Stanhope · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Philip Dormer Stanhope wäre heute 329 Jahre, 7 Monate, 12 Tage oder 120.389 Tage alt.
Geboren am 22.09.1694 in London
Gestorben am 24.03.1773 in London
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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Weitere 225 Zitate von Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.
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Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
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Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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Style is the dress of thoughts.
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Take the tone of the company that you are in.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
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Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it sha'n't be long.
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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.
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.
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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
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Wise people my say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.