Style is the dress of thoughts.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows someone thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts ... if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Unlike my subject now shall be my song It shall be witty, and it shant be long.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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