Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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

TravelWorldSelfCountryNobody

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

Jinder Mahal

GoodFeeling GoodFeelingNothing

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Joel Salatin

WorkPressureYouNowGroupNever

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleProblemsColoradoOwnLike

Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

Jeff Vandermeer

HealthConversationSometimesMeet

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Jeffrey Archer

StupidBookWonderPersonWillOut

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

Ana Navarro

Stand UpStandYouPresidentUp

I became a Catholic against my will.

Shusaku Endo

WillAgainstCatholicBecame

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Louise Brown

ReadingLuxuryGreatest

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Clara Barton

HappinessSufferingEvilSelfish

People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates us then loves us again. I don't think any kind of press is reliable.

Alison Mosshart

MusicRelationshipPeopleCoolThink

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Paul Theroux

LifeMy LifeProfoundInfluenced

As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations.

Sharon Van Etten

MusiciansYouMeetMoreKidNormal

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