103 Quotations by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- 41. It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
- 42. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
- 43. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- 44. Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- 45. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo ...
- 46. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
- 47. Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
- 48. Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t ...
- 49. Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo ...
- 50. Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
- 51. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
- 52. Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
- 53. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
- 54. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- 55. Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t ...
- 56. Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- 57. Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch ...
- 58. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to ...
- 59. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc ...
- 60. No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine ...
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