152 Quotes by William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.