Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Silly, Pride

• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Imperfection, Weakness

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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