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

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• 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
  • Good
  • May
  • Air