Famous Quotes | Never write down your speeches...
Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, undated, Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son and Others, p. 303, London, Dent (1796). Written to his godson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl (1755-1815), a distant relative of Chesterfield’s, who eventually became his heir and successor.
Categories: Man Of Letters, Speeches And Speechmaking, Statesman
