Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Dispatch is the soul of business. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield