Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. >>

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is abs >>

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers >>

Quotations about Flattery

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. >>

Many lick before they bite. >>

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. >>

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.

Chesterfield, Lord