Lord Mountbatten quote: "Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."

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LORD MOUNTBATTEN

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

I have been driven demented in my career.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and gr...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your ...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN

If you've got it, wear it.
ADMIRAL (LORD) LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

Sailors, with their built-in sense of order and discipline, should really be running the world.
ADMIRAL (LORD) LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be ...
ADMIRAL (LORD) LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe
LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON

Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON

We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD

Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
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

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

History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY

If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD

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

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

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Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

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