When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man
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Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or
Westminister Abbey.
LORD HORATIO NELSON Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known...
RONNIE BARKER When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
MILLA JOVOVICH The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviab...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a
porpoise.
JONATHAN SWIFT You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.
LIONEL SUGGS I don't like having two versions (of a DVD). People will buy the first one and not buy the second, a...
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.
BIBLE In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tri...
BIBLE When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.
STEPHEN COLBERT And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the...
BIBLE You can buy 10 girls in one night, if you want to. You can say, 'I want a 13-, a 16-, a 17-, and a 2...
IANA MATEI An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt.
WALTER MALONE It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understa...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE GREAT I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE THE GREAT And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according ...
BIBLE I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy...
BEN STEIN What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when ...
JOHN CENA I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love being honest not because i want to be a good person but because good people knows what it fee...
GUNDO MULAUDZI When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.
AMIT KALANTRI And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said...
BIBLE And there is not one of you but shall come to it; this is an unavoidable decree of your Lord.
QURAN Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy when...
RYAN GOSLING Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE An honest man is always a child.
SOCRATES Necessity makes an honest man a knave
DANIEL DEFOE an honest, straightforward man.
CHARLES WOLF It's like they say, you want to be an eight-man front when they run and a seven-man front when they ...
RON RIVERA The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of wh...
BIBLE I like to exhilarate the audience like Groucho Marx exhilarated me when I was a kid. Also, I enjoy d...
FRANK FERRANTE A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when som...
GEORGE SAND You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thorough...
OSCAR WILDE I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there
CHINESE PROVERBS I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse; and that if he be an ...
IZAAK WALTON Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred ...
BIBLE When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUT When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.
CHUCK ALEXANDER Women love an honest man.
RITA ORA An honest exceeding poor man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you,...
BIBLE And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his...
BIBLE A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.
AMIT KALANTRI I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
CATHERINE THE GREAT And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
BIBLE I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a t...
ERIK ESTRADA I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth:...
BIBLE Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall...
BIBLE When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Art is a troubled man; I wouldn't want to let him down at this point when he really needs help. Sinc...
ED BRASS One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another sha...
BIBLE Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
PROVERB I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
JIM ELLIOT Lord Jesus,' Christy whispered, 'I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen...
ROBIN JONES GUNN His answer was an honest one -- I think the markets misinterpreted what I said.
LYLE GRAMLEY You cannot con an honest man.
ALLY CARTER So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself wh...
MARC NEWSON One day I shall find you...When you touch me I shall shiver...When your lips shall touch mine, my he...
ESMERALDA MORALES I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in t...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
BIBLE The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
BIBLE Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has t...
BIBLE And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapeg...
BIBLE And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it s...
BIBLE If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy you...
MAHATMA GANDHI
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LORD NORTHCLIFFE 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 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 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 Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
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 Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON