Lady Dorothy Nevill Quotes

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If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

Lord Beaconsfield in his later years talked little when in society — men of his stamp, although they possess the gold of conversation, seldom have its small change.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter. The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

Lady Dorothy Nevill

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

Lady Dorothy Nevill