Beau Brummell quotes

Beau Brummell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed”
-- Beau Brummell

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“The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.”
-- Beau Brummell

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“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.”
-- Beau Brummell

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“Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.”
-- Beau Brummell

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“Who's your fat friend ?”
-- Beau Brummell

Source : Referring to the Prince of Wales, in Capt. Jesse 'Life of George Brummell' (1844) vol. 1, p. 273

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“Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.”
-- Beau Brummell

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“Shut the door, Wales.”
-- Beau Brummell

Source : To the Prince of Wales (attributed)

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”
“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”
“Death should take more care with his paperwork.”
“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
“The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.”
“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

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