Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Royalty

• The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Leadership, Reflection, Knowing

• Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Giving, Waiting

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford

• Como los reyes son engendrados y nacen como los demás hombres, es de suponer que pertenecen a la especie humana; y tal vez, si hubieran recibido la misma educación, podrían llegar a ser como los demás hombres. Pero, halagados desde la cuna, sus corazones se corrompen y sus cabezas se tuercen, de modo que parecen ser una especie por sí mismos.... La adulación no puede ser demasiado fuerte para ellos; ebrios de ella desde su infancia, como viejos bebedores, necesitan sueños.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sueño, Fuerte, Reyes

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Conde de Chesterfield (1855). "Las obras de Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author", p.621

• Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Son, Two

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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