Perhaps Mr Blair should know that when he talks about the rules of the game he should know this is not a game; this is a deathly serious and earnest matter, and that what we [the judges] do apply is the law.


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LORD BURLEIGH
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE
A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON
Business is more exciting than any game.
LORD BEAVERBROOK
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD