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Nor do they trust their tongues alone, But speak a language of their own; Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, Far better than a printed book; Convey a libel in a frown, And wink a reputation down; Or, by the tossing of the fan, describe the lady and the man. - [Slander] Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rate in a hole. - in a letter to Bolingbroke [Anger] Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. - [Flattery] Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. - [Riches] Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. - [Science] Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. - saying quoted by [Wrong] Once kick the world, and the world and you live together at a reasonable good understanding. - [World] One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. - quoted in a letter [Enemies] One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid. Let the sage reflections of these philosophic minds be cherished. - [Conversation] One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us. - [Good Breeding] One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us. - [Manners] Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. - [People] Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. - often attributed to Alexander Pope [Passion] Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. - [Pain] Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker. - [Wit] Perverseness is your whole defence. - [Perverseness] Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude will convince others the more, as he appears convinced himself. - [Positiveness] Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world. - [Manners] Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. - [Style] Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. - [Pun] Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. - [Apothegms] Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. - [Reason] Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. - [Rhetoric] Set off with numerous breaks and dashes. - [Style] She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 5 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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