"Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal……" — Lord Chesterfield

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. - Lord Chesterfield

"Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners."

— Lord Chesterfield

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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.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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