"Women are much more like each other than……" — Lord Chesterfield
"Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics."
—
Lord Chesterfield
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
-
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
-
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
-
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
-
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
-
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
-
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
-
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
-
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
-
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
-
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
-
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
See all 228 quotes by Lord Chesterfield »
More Characteristics Quotes
This quote is filed under Characteristics Quotes,
one of 792 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
-
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
— Gaston Bachelard
-
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and…
— Walter Bagehot
-
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
-
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
-
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
— Emma Bonino
-
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is…
— Edward de Bono
-
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before,…
— Kobe Bryant
-
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
-
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of…
— Giacomo Casanova
-
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
See all 792 Characteristics Quotes »