Zitate von Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Philip Dormer Stanhope:
Junge Männer neigen dazu, Mißfallen, wenn nicht gar Abscheu und Verachtung für ältere und häßliche Frauen zu zeigen, was ebenso unhöflich wie unklug ist, denn wir schulden dem ganzen Geschlecht eine achtungsvolle Höflichkeit.
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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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
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Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Few people do business well who do nothing else.
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Give Dayrolles a chair.
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Good manners are, to particular societies, what good morals are to society in general: their cement and their security.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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Human nature is the same all over the world.
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I . . . could not help reflecting in my way upon the singular ill-luck of this my dear country, which, as long as ever I remember it, and as far back as I have read, has always been governed by the only two or three people, out of two or three millions, totally incapable of governing, and unfit to be trusted.
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I am advising you as a friend, as a man of the world, as one who would not have you old while you are young, but would have you to take all the pleasures that reason points out, and that decency warrants.
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
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I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
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I recommend to you to take care of minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
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Idleness is onlythe refuge of weak minds.
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Idleness is the holiday of fools.
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If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
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If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
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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 mycharge.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.