4+ Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury quotes and sayings.

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

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

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

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