Lady Hester Stanhope famous quotes

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Education #Lying #Long

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Essence #Identity #Vain

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Nature #Stars #Moon

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Fool #Conversation #Packs

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Philosophical #Discovery #Sublime

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
-- Lady Hester Stanhope

#Taken #Men #Thinking

All I have learned, I learned from books.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.