Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ugly, Flattery, Enough

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

• Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Understanding, Ugly

• As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.621

• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Grace

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Women, Understanding

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beauty, Flattery, Gross

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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