Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Charity, Merit

• One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.104, Oxford University Press

• The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gratitude, Dog, Powerful

• Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Flower, Generosity, Way

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