Philip Stanhope 4th Earl Of Chesterfield Quotes

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#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 feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.

Dan Mangan

#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. When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Jacques Rivette

#7. Dispatch is the soul of business.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#8. I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Bill Veeck

#9. Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

Rita Rudner

#10. One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

Irvin D. Yalom

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#12. I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Jean Cocteau

#13. If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

Lee Trevino

#14. She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him - and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.

Marissa Clarke

#15. It was Aomame's firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible, whatever one might enshrine there.

Haruki Murakami

#16. 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

#17. We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

Peter Russell

#18. I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people ...

May Sarton

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#22. 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

#23. The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Frank Herbert

#24. It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.

John Holt

#25. I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

Hari Kondabolu

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield