Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.


Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (ed. 1827)


The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful...

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful...

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful...

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful...