Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

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• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

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• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

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• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

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• I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

  

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• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

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• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

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• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

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• I still have a young attitude.

  

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

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• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

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• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

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• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

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• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.

  

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• It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

  

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• There is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

  

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• Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Long
  • Song
  • Witty