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Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Lord Chesterfield

British statesman and man of letters

Nationality: British
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Birth: 1694-1773
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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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.
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
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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.
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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell
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Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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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.
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt,
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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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.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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