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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
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
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