Famous Quotes | Singularity is only pardonable...
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Apr. 5, 1754, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, p. 78, London (1774). Chesterfield was sixty at the time, and his son twenty-two.
Categories: Individualism, Man Of Letters, Old Age, Statesman
