Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Topics

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We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.

Jimmy Sangster

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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman

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Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

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The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

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We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women.

Stacey Dash

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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

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I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it.

Soledad O'Brien

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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Martin Rees

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Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

Joseph Pilates

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Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

Dean Norris

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I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Antony Sher

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