Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
Lord ChesterfieldWhen you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.
Lord ChesterfieldI always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.
Lord Chesterfield