Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.


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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
PHILIP TREACY
Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
PHILIP TREACY
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN
They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY
I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ...
PHILIP CROSBY
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ...
PHILIP LARKIN
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
PHILIP MASSINGER
I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
GENEREUX PHILIP
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru...
PHILIP LARKIN
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER
I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN
If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP
I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH
For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER