Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their e >>

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choos >>

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonab >>

Quotations about Literature

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and writ >>

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers >>

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approv >>

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Chesterfield, Lord