Wentworth Dillon Quotes & Sayings

We weep and laugh, as we see others do. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Choose an author as you would a friend. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Praise Him, each savage furious beast
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

The multitude is always wrong. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon