I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.