In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning