Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
Lord ChesterfieldBusiness by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
Lord ChesterfieldCardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Lord ChesterfieldA man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.
Lord Chesterfield