| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 346 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine ; and plain, where others are plain ; but take care, always, that your clothes are well made...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
| 1774 - 584 pages
...others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always " (adds his lordship) : " take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you ; for otherwise they will give you an unpolished and awkward air. . . . So much upon a gentleman's dress, which / maintain to be a thing... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine ; and plain, where others are plain ; but take care, always, that your clothes are well made,...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 514 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourselves fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always that your clothes are well made,...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 320 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine, where others are fine ; and plain, where others are plain ; but take care, always, that your clothes are well made...once well dressed for the day, think no more of it afterward ; and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 324 pages
...you a very awkward air. When you are once well dressed for the day, think no more of it afterward ; and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all. So much for dress, which I maintain to be... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. — Chesterfield. Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit. — lien Jonson.... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 504 pages
...at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...no more of it afterwards; and without any stiffness or fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...a sloven at forty. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and...more of it afterwards ; and without any stiffness or fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes... | |
| conte Baldassarre Castiglione - Courtesy - 1900 - 474 pages
...unreconciled, a world of meaningless timidities and i Lord Chesterfield gives advice to the same effect : — ' When you are once ' well dressed for the day, think...fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy ' and natural as if you had no clothes on at all ' — (Dec. 30, i748). And again :— '... | |
| |