Top 20 Hester Stanhope Quotes
#1. 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
#2. As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
W. H. Auden
#3. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon
#4. Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#5. I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic
#6. Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#7. My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#8. I call them my kith and kin: earth is in my body, air moves my breath and stirs my intellect, fire is the spark of energy within me and my passion, and water is in my bodily liquids and my emotions.
Ann Moura
#9. My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.
Hester Lucy Stanhope
#10. I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
Haruki Murakami
#11. I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Lady Hester Stanhope
#12. It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.
G.G. Vandagriff
#13. They always try to trick you, deliberately throwing extraneous plot lines just to confuse and misguide you, withholding important information until the last chapter, using vague and misleading descriptions so you don't notice something that should be plain as day.
Moxie Mezcal
#15. Love and hate are very close emotions, both intense and consuming
Aleatha Romig
#17. Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
Shane Smith
#18. A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday, to believe in us, too.
Brock Clarke
#20. 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
