Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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

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Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

Jessica Valenti

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.

Steve Bannon

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A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

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It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Robert B. Laughlin

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When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became 'Roddy Piper.'

Roddy Piper

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Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

Michelle Phan

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There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

Lloyd Kaufman

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Personally, what I would like the most is to work on a project that would aid the historic rehabilitation of Havana. It's a shame - and it gives me tremendous sadness - to see the precious buildings, to see a city, which could be the most beautiful in Latin America, falling apart and with very little money for renovations.

Jorge M. Perez

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The BJP decides its own policies.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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It is practically certain that sometime during 1958, either the Russians or we, and most likely both, are going to shoot a rocket to the moon.

Willy Ley

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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Peter Weir

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