Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

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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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

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Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

John Kricfalusi

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Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

Matthew Lillard

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You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Steve Earle

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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.

Tre Cool

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The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Robert C. Solomon

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The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

Mike Simpson

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There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

Josh Radnor

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I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.

Peer Steinbruck

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I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Seamus Heaney

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