Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

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• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly