William Shenstone Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Success, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143

• There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

  William Shenstone

  Country, Quality, Court

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.281

• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Quality, Titles

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.174

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