Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Quotes to Explore
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
E. F. Benson
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
Earl Weaver
That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
Albert Einstein
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert
I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.
Jeff Abbott
Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
Brian Stelfreeze
You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
Donald Glover
You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield