Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British celebrity Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt, styled Lord Ashley between 1947 and 1961, and Earl of Shaftesbury from 1961 until his death, was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England. He was the son of Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, and Françoise Soulier.

British - Celebrity | May 22, 1938 - November 5, 2004

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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury