Lord Chesterfield
40 quotations
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Take the tone of the company you are in.