"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an…" — Lord Chesterfield
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
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228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film.…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
— Steven Adler
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
— John Boehner
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
— Luther Burbank
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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the…
— Julie Burchill
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