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Lord Falconer

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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