Dorothy Nevill Quotes

• The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Self, Neglect, Teach

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Art, Lost, Conversation

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Business, Class, Justice

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Business, Ideas, People

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• For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Real, Party, Political

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen

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• It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Women, Thinking, Elements

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

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• A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Politician, Modern, Explaining

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Work, Men, Sorrow

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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