152 Quotes by William Shenstone

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.