Earl Of Chesterfield Quotes

#1. Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Ricky Jay

#2. In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#3. I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#4. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#5. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#6. Dispatch is the soul of business.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#7. In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

Kelly Cutrone

#8. Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#9. If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

Linda Sue Park

#10. Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Drake Bell

#11. The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#12. In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#14. She thought all you needed to do - all any of them needed - was to get out. But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Lauren Oliver

#15. The golden ratio, as well as the Great Pyramid as an expression of it, is an important key to our universe containing the Earth and the Moon. ... The ratio between the Earth and the Moon is in fact the basis for the mathematical concept of 'squaring the circle' ...

Willem Witteveen

#16. When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#17. Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#18. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#19. Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#20. The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#21. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield