Famous Quotes | In private life he was...

In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit, which he was too free of for a man in his station, as it is always inconsistent with dignity. He was very able as a minister, but without a certain elevation of mind necessary for great good, or great mischief. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Characters of Chesterfield, 1778, repr. Augustan Reprint Society, nos. 259-260, p. 31, University of California, Los Angeles (1990). Character of Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), first minister in the British government from 1715 to 1717 and from 1721 to 1742.

Categories: Dignity, Greatness, Man Of Letters, Parliament: House Of Commons, Statesman

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