Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Flattery
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Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
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As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.
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Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
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Lord Chesterfield
- Born: September 22, 1694
- Died: March 24, 1773
- Occupation: British Statesman