Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Take the tone of the company you are in. >>

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without ido >>

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable >>

Quotations about Men and Women

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be. >>

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal >>

Men and women, women and men; it will never work. >>

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Chesterfield, Lord