Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Common Sense

Quotes about: Common Sense

• Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Common Sense, Truth Is, Uncommon

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.97, Oxford University Press

• The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Order, Light, Common Sense

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.296, Oxford University Press

• It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Common Sense, Desire

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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