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14 Quotes for 'Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield' in the Database.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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Despatch is the soul of business.
Topic: Business
Source: Letters
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You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Topic: Business
Source: Memories of the Courts of the Stuarts--Nassau and Hanover, to John Anstis, the Garter King of Arms a
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Letters
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun;
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Topic: Dew
Source: Advice to a Lady in Autumn
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If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you
think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so
little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad
company by doing so."
Topic: Drinking
Source: Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World (sec. Sundry Little Accomplishments)
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Unlike my subject, I will make my song.
It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Topic: Epigrams
Source: Preface to Letters (vol. 1)
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The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Letter to his Son
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh
since the creation of the world.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Letters (vol. I, p. 211), (ed. by Mahon)
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A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Letters (vol. II, pp. 164 & 404), (edited by Mahon)
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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."
Topic: Money
Source: Letters, quoting Lowndes
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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Topic: Money
Source: Letters, quoting Lowndes
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Unlike my subject, I will make my song.
It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Topic: Songs
Source: Preface to Letters (vol. 1)
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Style is the dress of thoughts.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Topic: Style
Source: Letter to his Son--On Education
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These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
Topic: Success
Source: Letters
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