Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Friendship

Quotes about: Friendship

• Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Trust, Love You

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

• Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Best Friend, Funny Friend

• People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, People, Degrees

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.55, Oxford Paperbacks

• In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Friendship, Heart

• The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Fortune, Continuity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.630

• In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Enmity, Strange

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

• The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Degrees, Connections

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

• Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Blood, Ties

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