Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield quote: "I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, four...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Despatch is the soul of business.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,-...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you w...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publis...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

'All Mr. Pitt's sentiments were liberal and elevated. His ruling passion was an unbounded ambition, ...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from di...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man ...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, ...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by whic...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Ridicule is the best test of truth.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Take the tone of the company you are in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Sacrifice to the Graces.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD

You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tenta...
FOURTH DOCTOR

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN

Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING

I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
EARL OF DERBY

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting ...
NATALIE DORMER

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that k...
NATALIE DORMER

When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullyin...
NATALIE DORMER

I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she s...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is...
NATALIE DORMER

Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities ...
NATALIE DORMER

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a grea...
NATALIE DORMER

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
NATALIE DORMER

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to pro...
NATALIE DORMER

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER

The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovn...
NATALIE DORMER

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as po...
NATALIE DORMER

Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
NATALIE DORMER

I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around histo...
NATALIE DORMER

The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both proje...
NATALIE DORMER

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway...
NATALIE DORMER

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only...
NATALIE DORMER

When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's ...
NATALIE DORMER

I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remem...
NATALIE DORMER

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British country...
NATALIE DORMER

Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
NATALIE DORMER

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and ...
NATALIE DORMER

When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk a...
NATALIE DORMER

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way...
NATALIE DORMER

Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and ...
NATALIE DORMER

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, whic...
NATALIE DORMER

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of huma...
NATALIE DORMER

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There&#...
NATALIE DORMER

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a v...
NATALIE DORMER

I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick c...
NATALIE DORMER

Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in ...
NATALIE DORMER

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in ou...
NATALIE DORMER

I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown h...
NATALIE DORMER

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the grea...
NATALIE DORMER

Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
NATALIE DORMER

When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered i...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-mater...
NATALIE DORMER

It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
NATALIE DORMER

Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
NATALIE DORMER

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to ...
NATALIE DORMER

So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inver...
NATALIE DORMER

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don'...
NATALIE DORMER

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
NATALIE DORMER

My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-r...
NATALIE DORMER

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains...
NATALIE DORMER

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress tha...
NATALIE DORMER

I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born...
NATALIE DORMER

Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holm...
NATALIE DORMER

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I'v...
NATALIE DORMER

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
NATALIE DORMER

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Mate...
NATALIE DORMER

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
NATALIE DORMER

Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
NATALIE DORMER

The whole house was just shaking, then the roof came off. It blew all of the furniture out the back ...
DALE DORMER

It looked like it was a mile wide. I've never seen anything that scared me so bad.
DALE DORMER

I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, bec...
NATALIE DORMER

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...
DOUG STANHOPE

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though th...
DOUG STANHOPE

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I...
DOUG STANHOPE

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far,...
DOUG STANHOPE

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was somethi...
DOUG STANHOPE

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but y...
DOUG STANHOPE

Make it as easy as possible to become obsessive about hand washing.
WILLIAM STANHOPE

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break...
DOUG STANHOPE

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that...
DOUG STANHOPE

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit
DOUG STANHOPE

Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing.
DOUG STANHOPE

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
DOUG STANHOPE

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the r...
DOUG STANHOPE

I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something jus...
DOUG STANHOPE

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
DOUG STANHOPE

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
DOUG STANHOPE

The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV...
DOUG STANHOPE

This is wonderful. This is a good news story certainly for Nanaimo and for NALT.
JOE STANHOPE

The containers are supposed to be absolutely vermin-proof.
JOE STANHOPE

We understand that applies to timber harvesting. So we are OK there.
JOE STANHOPE

Those negotiations are at a very sensitive point right now.
JOE STANHOPE

It's a really happy day, there's no question about that. It's all due to the involvement of a lot of...
JOE STANHOPE

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides ...
PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

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

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

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

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

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

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

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

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

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

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

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield

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