Famous Quotes | A man’s own good breeding is...
A man’s own good breeding is his best security against other people’s ill-manners.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Jan. 15, 1753, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, p. 304, London (1774). One of the Maxims Chesterfield enclosed with his letter of this date.
Categories: Man Of Letters, Manners, Statesman
