A biography for Philip Stanhopehasn’t been written yet.
“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.”
“You must look into people as well as at them.”
“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
“Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.”
“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.”
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”
“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.”
“Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”
“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”
“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.”
“Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.”
“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.”
“I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
“When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”