 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - Education - 1990 - 436 pages
...the past. — David Mahoney Conversation Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon...subject of other people's than of your own choosing. — Lord Chesterfield 72 Conversation It is a Secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the Conduct... | |
 | Liz Carlyle - Fiction - 2002 - 468 pages
...down to fling open the door. "After all, I'm just about to admit a very strange man into my home." Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations. — LORD CHESTERFIELD, 1776, The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette The house on Mortimer Street was quiet.... | |
 | Amedeo Quondam - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 382 pages
...hand, in order to be heard out [...]. Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in [...]. Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative polemical conversations [...]. Above all things, and upon all occasions, avoid speaking of yourself, if it be possible [...].... | |
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Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and, if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. 
