Beau Brummell quotes
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“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed”
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“The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.”
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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.”
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“Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.”
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“Who's your fat friend ?”
-- Beau BrummellSource : 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.”
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“Shut the door, Wales.”
-- Beau BrummellSource : 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.”
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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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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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