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Lord Chesterfield Quotes


Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.