“Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed:”
As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234
Contexte: Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
Johann Kaspar Lavater: 24 citations0 J'aime
Johann Kaspar Lavater: Citations en anglais
As quoted in What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery (1919) by William Alexander Newman Dorland
“Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.”
No. 398
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
No. 157
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?”
No. 260
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.”
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290
“The public seldom forgive twice.”
No. 595
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4
“Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.”
No. 305
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.”
No. 282
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246
No. 609
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”
No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.”
No. 183
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
