I am convinced that a light supper, a good nights sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. – Lord Chesterfield
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we dont choose to have it known. – Lord Chesterfield
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield
Hamlet is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death whats real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. – Michael Sheen