Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Marriage, Drinking

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.254

• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wife, Mistress, Prejudice

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.292, OUP Oxford

• To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mistake, Wife, Found

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.373, OUP Oxford

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