[ lord chesterfield Quotes ]
40 Quotations
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
[ Manners ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
[ Mind ]
Lord Chesterfield
20 votes
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
[ Wit ]
Lord Chesterfield
22 votes
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
[ Advice ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
[ Dress ]
Lord Chesterfield
22 votes
Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
[ Discretion ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
[ Character ]
Lord Chesterfield
23 votes
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
[ Laughter ]
Lord Chesterfield
20 votes
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
[ Persuasion ]
Lord Chesterfield
17 votes
History is but a confused heap of facts.
[ History and Historians ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
[ Failure ]
Lord Chesterfield
20 votes
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
[ Persuasion ]
Lord Chesterfield
21 votes
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
[ Laughter ]
Lord Chesterfield
22 votes
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
[ Scandal ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
[ Inferiority ]
Lord Chesterfield
26 votes
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
[ Knowledge ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
[ Knowledge ]
Lord Chesterfield
23 votes
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
[ Books - Reading ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
[ Vice ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
[ Retirement ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
[ Manners ]
Lord Chesterfield
25 votes
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
[ Belief ]
Lord Chesterfield
23 votes
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
[ Heart ]
Lord Chesterfield
24 votes
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Lord Chesterfield
23 votes
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
[ Egotism ]
Lord Chesterfield
16 votes
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
[ Perseverance ]
Lord Chesterfield
17 votes
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
[ Literature ]
Lord Chesterfield
22 votes
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
Take the tone of the company you are in.
[ Conformity ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Lord Chesterfield
19 votes
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
[ Divorce ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
[ Anecdotes ]
Lord Chesterfield
18 votes
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