I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought go to away and write a book about it


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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