103 Quotations by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- 21. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
- 22. Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o ...
- 23. Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, ...
- 24. He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- 25. History is but a confused heap of facts.
- 26. Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- 27. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will ...
- 28. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
- 29. I find by experience that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately ...
- 30. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit ...
- 31. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
- 32. Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
- 33. If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs ...
- 34. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion ...
- 35. If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
- 36. If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
- 37. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm ...
- 38. In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
- 39. In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
- 40. Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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