Earl Of Chesterfield Quotes

#1. When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#2. Dispatch is the soul of business. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#3. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#4. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#5. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#6. The more one works, the more willing one is to work. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#7. 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. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#8. In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. #Quote by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#9. I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. #Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

#10. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow. #Quote by Esther Earl

#11. Earl spun but was not at all prepared for what he saw; something lumpy, black like the water, slid back beneath the surface like ink flowing into ink, and he could've sworn that for the briefest of moments he saw a glowing, pale yellow eye. #Quote by Sean J. Quirk

#12. What have I to give my Lord? Just what the wise men gave. Gold - all the things that are wealth to me: money and health and strength and friends. Frankincense - the first intensity of my heart's love and loyalty. Myrrh - my sorrows, my hurts, my trials - and my power to suffer. When I give Him these, I give Him all. And He is worthy. #Quote by Earl C. Wolf

#13. Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#14. Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of the His Father, until you and I as sons of God become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, "Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and are ruling and reigning in your world." #Quote by Earl Paulk

#15. Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it. #Quote by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#16. Underneath this little stone
Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
No other archer was so good -
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
Will England never see again. #Quote by Roger Lancelyn Green

#17. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#18. As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' #Quote by Duke Of Wellington

#19. For a moment she could have sworn she was standing in one of those history-comes-alive museums
the kind that feature animatronic robots, the narration stylings of James Earl Jones, and the sort of exhibits that invade children's nightmares for years to come. But instead of a cyborgish John Wilkes Booth discharging his deadly bullet into the back of a plastic Lincoln's head, a very real version of the assassin was engaged in a furious arm-wrestling match with Elvis Presley.
Lincoln was watching the tussle, amused. "Come on, John," he said. "You can do better than that."
"He's all talk," Elvis whispered back.
"Silence!" roared Booth. "I'm trying to concentrate!"
Lincoln rolled his eyes. #Quote by Gina Damico

#20. 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. #Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl Of Shaftesbury

#21. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#22. The past is the best way to suppose what may come. #Quote by E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#23. Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man.
Correction.
Earl.
So what, indeed. #Quote by Nicole Castro

#24. As the late earl said, 'The early bird catches birds of a like feather,'" she said.
I nodded, not even trying to understand how that would work. At the very least, the combination of proverbs made it somewhat original. #Quote by Tarun Shanker

#25. Planted firmly across the path of change, operating warily, shrewdly yet with passionate conviction in defence of the existing order, was a peer who was Chancellor of Oxford University for life, had twice held the India Office, twice the Foreign Office and was now Prime Minister for the third time. He was Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, ninth Earl and third Marquess of his line. #Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

#26. The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. #Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

#27. Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#28. It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion. #Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

#29. Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world. #Quote by Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

#30. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#31. Live this new way and the flood gates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed. Money, yes, lots of it, but what's more important you'll have peace. You'll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful successful lives. Start today. You have nothing to lose. But you have a life to win. #Quote by Earl Nightingale

#32. I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical. #Quote by James Earl Jones

#33. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare #Quote by Mary Jo Putney

#34. Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield

#35. As my good friend Will Shakespeare put it, the course of true love never did run smooth. You need not fear me, darling. I shall never again lift a hand to harm you. That would not bring me what I most desire, your love. Be forewarned, little one, that your life without me shall be a lonely one.


Farewell for now, sweet child.

All my love,

Lord Simon Baldevar, Earl of Lecarrow. #Quote by Trisha Baker

#36. Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality. #Quote by Earl Butz

#37. Damned woman.
Ever since she'd dropped into his
arms last night, he'd been tied in knots. On one hand, desire gripped him. On the other, the need to turn her over his knee until she admitted it was the same for her rode him.
On the third hand, if he had a third hand, lay the question of who she
was. Why had he never seen her out in
society? But more important, why was he
so conflicted over this rude, irritating
girl?
Hell, that was like five hands. He'd
have to be Kali to decipher his response
to Liliana Claremont.

Geoffrey Wentworth, Earl of Stratford #Quote by Heather Snow

#38. He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all. #Quote by Olivia Parker

#39. A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do. #Quote by Earl Nightingale

#40. since I know for a fact that her class had been in the physics labs when Mr. Fibs got attacked by the bees he thought he'd genetically modified to obey commands from a whistle. (Turns out they only respond to the voice of James Earl Jones.) #Quote by Ally Carter

#41. Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. #Quote by Earl Blumenauer

#42. Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested interest in peace and prosperity. You cannot sell a house to a war refugee living in a tent, can you? Really hard tto sell an iPhone to a shattered victim. Businesses and corporatoons run this country. So yuou have to approach them with logic. Emotional appeals to the hippies of this world will not change minds. Stick to logic.

- Shane Gibson, candidate for Governor, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF. #Quote by Earl Devere

#43. ME LIKE THE MAGNET
Men I like, I repel
Like a magnet do
So if I'm nasty
Then you know
I probably fancy you.
"It's defence," the shrinks would say.
"It's protects against a fall."
It's impenetrable this fence of mine
It's like the Berlin Wall. #Quote by Rae Earl

#44. When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning ... he must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires. #Quote by Earl Warren

#45. True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. #Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

#46. An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. #Quote by William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#47. We may live without friends; we may live without books
But civilized men cannot live without cooks. #Quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#48. I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing." #Quote by William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

#49. Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you. #Quote by Lord Chesterfield