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Lord Chesterfield Quotes


The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

You must look into people as well as at them.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.