Lord Chesterfield Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

47 Famous Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
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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.”
All about love Quotes
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
Friends / friendship Quotes
“History is a confused heap of facts.”
History Quotes
“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, and tatters.”
Appearance Quotes
“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.”
Appearance Quotes
“If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.”
Appearance Quotes
“You must look into people, as well as at them.”
Character Quotes
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.”
Education Quotes
“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.”
Existence Quotes
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
Injury Quotes
“Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Laziness Quotes
“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”
Manners Quotes
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
Modesty Quotes
“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.”
Perspective Quotes
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
Philosophy Quotes
“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
Weakness Quotes
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