Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Gay, Dark

• Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Smile, Patience, Degrees

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.302, Oxford University Press

• In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Tragedy, Dignity

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.249, Oxford University Press

• Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Dignity, Disadvantages

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

• Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dignity, Breeding, Ill

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

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