Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and t >>

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which >>

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very of >>

Quotations about Company

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they sho >>

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, >>

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you'r >>

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Chesterfield, Lord