The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.


The Works of Lord Chesterfield (ed. 1855)

Philip Stanhope Quotes

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People...

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People...

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People...

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People...