Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore >>

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one >>

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill mann >>

Quotations about Intimacy

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights >>

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Chesterfield, Lord