It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.


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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
Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ...
LORD HANSON
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
LORD BURLEIGH
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
LORD KAMES
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL
Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD