Logo
Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a

The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Truth
Author
Lord Chesterfield
Read Quote

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Shame
Author
Lord Chesterfield
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Books
category

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

Category:
Books

A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

Category:
Books

The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Books

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. – Sarah Burton

Category:
wedding

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a persons belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. – Arthur C. Brooks

Category:
Happiness

He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

Category:
Language

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions. – Jim Sensenbrenner

Category:
Technology