Chesterfield

Cited as Chesterfield. — 16 quotations

What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.

The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded.

You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes.

An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary.

[A] jumble of youth and caducity.

Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them.

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.

He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

The fabulous birth of Minerva.

My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.

Cut it short; don't prose -- don't hum and haw.

An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education.

If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor.

A genteel neological dictionary.

The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things.

Style is the dress of thoughts.