Lady Hester Stanhope Quotes

United Kingdom, Socialite
March 12, 1776 – June, 23, 1839.

Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British socialite, adventurer and traveller. Her archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology. Her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists".

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

Lady Hester Stanhope
- Water
- Sun
- Moon
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Lady Hester Stanhope
- Nature

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
- People
- Long
- Why
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
- Good
- Society
- Taken
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Lady Hester Stanhope
- Deep
- Philosophical
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Stanhope
- Time
- Women
- Fool