Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a >>

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the >>

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and fla >>

Quotations about Anecdotes

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. >>

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a >>

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adven >>

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Chesterfield, Lord