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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.


Lord Chesterfield

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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
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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