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Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.


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Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, LORD HALIFAX Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
LORD HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
GEOGRE SAVILLE Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
INDIRA GANDHI Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
LORD HALIFAX The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
LORD HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
LORD HALIFAX There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.
LORD HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob...
LORD HALIFAX If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ...
LORD HALIFAX A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second...
LORD HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
LORD HALIFAX The likelihood now must be that the picture would pass to an overseas buyer,
LORD HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
LORD HALIFAX We want to reach through Halifax and beyond.
HUGO DANN The rumours were insane -- everything from $2.25 a litre in Ontario to $1.90 in Halifax.
JENNIFER MURPHY An angry person is seldom reasonable; a reasonable person is seldom angry.
UNKNOWN It is a welcome development that the Halifax has recognized which way the market is going.
MARK THOMAS Always something new, seldom something good.
GERMAN PROVERB That's certainly an improvement over previous proposals by Transportation. Hopefully citizens of Hal...
CHRIS MILLER If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud ...
JAN MASARYK Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
FANNY BURNEY He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one
MARK TWAIN The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from,
SARAH MCLACHLAN He [Halifax] had said that he had known many kicked downstairs, but he never knew any kicked upstair...
GILBERT BURNET We had our chances, we didn't capitalize on it. Halifax can thank (goalie Jeremy) Duchesne for that.
CLEM JODOIN People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crisis....
CARL G JUNG A good horse should be seldom spurred.
THOMAS FULLER A good horse should be seldom spurred
THOMAS FULLER Seldom is life one thing over another.
BENJAMIN L. STEWART It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not p...
MARCEL PROUST A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall.
PAUL O'NEIL One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Always something new, seldom something good.
PROVERB Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
DANISH PROVERB Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
JANE AUSTEN Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
HALIFAX He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
HALIFAX Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
LEWIS CARROLL He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.
VERA NAZARIAN Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
CONFUCIUS Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.
SHANNON L. ALDER A comprehensive analysis takes up to eight hours. But I seldom work that long without some breaks in...
DEBBIE WEBB In the first half we struggled to get our legs. In the second, Halifax came out strong but we were a...
BRIAN RENNO Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D. Great and good are seldom the same man.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels o...
J. HAWES The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER The One Lord permeates all. The One Lord is pervading everywhere.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confo...
BIBLE Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
DANIEL WEBSTER Keep cool; anger is not an argument
DANIEL WEBSTER The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
BIBLE In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.
AMY SEDARIS A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one
MARK TWAIN I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
MARK TWAIN And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God:...
BIBLE Thank the good Lord for a job.
WYNTON MARSALIS The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief ...
NAPOLEON HILL Happiness seldom shouts, but often whispers.
JIM GENOVESE Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH We flew into Halifax on this scary propeller plane, which was a little nerve-wracking. But for the f...
JENNIFER SKY Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
BIBLE Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
DANIEL WEBSTER Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.
SHERRILYN KENYON The Lord alone is the One Creator; there is only the One Court of the Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a chang...
NANCY GIBBS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius ...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius ...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
GARRISON KEILLOR

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LORD HALIFAX The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
LORD HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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LORD HALIFAX The likelihood now must be that the picture would pass to an overseas buyer,
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LORD HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
LORD HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
HALIFAX He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
HALIFAX Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
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JOAN HALIFAX This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.
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JOAN HALIFAX Speaking in Creations tongues, hearing Creations voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has...
JOAN HALIFAX Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your autho...
JOAN HALIFAX Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and streng...
JOAN HALIFAX Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mo...
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JOAN HALIFAX Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everythi...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolin...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
GEORGE SAVILE HALIFAX Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK