Philip Stanhope
Philip Stanhope
british-statesman business detect expose eyes man perceive seem wrong
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
business soul
Dispatch is the soul of business.
british-statesman children flatters forward larger man neither nor plays serious trifles trusts women
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
british-statesman care deserve dress surely
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
british-statesman course time
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
british-statesman great himself ivy man merit power raise round
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
british-statesman burden ease gratitude imperfect lighten ourselves willing
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
people wiser ifs
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
ambition passion pride
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.
love men justice
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
beautiful mouths world
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
men hot action
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.
real men long
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.